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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Ian Lambert <ian.lambert_42@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Periodic search for FAQ link update for clean_setup.pl?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55af0c16-50ad-6c6f-c973-acb92f0dc52c@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <981296455.1944756.1481648267593@mail.yahoo.com>

On 13/12/2016 16:57, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
> Looking for suggestions on cleaning up package directories,
>
> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.disk-space
>
> has a broken link, again, to clean_setup.pl ?
>
> Mailing list search finds:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00573.html
>
> that has an old version attached, 1.0700 (2003-07-02).
>
> Is a newer version available or is that the latest,
> and could the FAQ link be fixed?

Thanks for pointing this out.

Since direct downloads from cygwin.com haven't been allowed for a long 
time, this FAQ should say something like "available at 
unsupported/clean_setup.pl in a Cygwin mirror"

I'm not sure if this script still works, and it is, well..., unsupported :)


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2016-12-13 17:01 ` Ian Lambert via cygwin
2016-12-14 18:05   ` Jon Turney [this message]

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