From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 97889 invoked by alias); 4 May 2015 17:58:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 97875 invoked by uid 89); 4 May 2015 17:58:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 May 2015 17:58:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 82164 invoked by uid 13447); 4 May 2015 17:58:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 May 2015 17:58:05 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2098\)) Subject: Re: Installation data under "~/Downloads/cygwin/" From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: <21831.43821.807000.397963@woitok.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 19:47:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <78DCE27F-6CB2-4ECE-9666-39E378A9371D@etr-usa.com> References: <21827.25837.938200.991974@woitok.gmail.com> <1813375497.20150502013537@yandex.ru> <21831.43821.807000.397963@woitok.gmail.com> To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 On May 4, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wro= te: >=20 > On Saturday, 2015-05-02 01:35:37 +0300, you wrote: >=20 >> ... >> You may safely nuke everything that is not your Cygwin installation. >=20 > Well, what precisely IS my Cygwin installation? Only the stuff in "C:\ > cygwin\=94? Yes, though I wouldn=92t have put it the way Andrey did. I mean, c:\window= s is not your Cygwin installation, but you cannot safely nuke it. :) The real point is that the Cygwin download directory can be safely nuked. = Keeping it just speeds reinstallation. If you=92re not storing the Cygwin = download directory on a NAS or other type of file server for use by multipl= e computers, you probably don=92t need to keep the download directory. > And how does Cygwin's "setup.exe" know which version of what > is already installed? It reads the database stored as /etc/setup/installed.db. > What are the "setup.ini" files under "C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\ > cygwin\" used for? Those are databases listing the packages available from the mirror you sele= cted, along with other metadata such as version numbers, dependency info, d= escriptions, etc. You can open it in a text editor and see all of this. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple