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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to migrate from Cygwin Ports?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a45000c6-c498-7644-ce5d-ba3893d2b077@Nexgo.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <odkg7s$5dt$1@blaine.gmane.org>

> Cygwin Ports has recently been shut down. How can I
> identify all packages that were installed from their
> web site in order to uninstall those stale packages?

Start setup.exe with the option -o / --delete-orphans and it will remove 
all packages on the system that it cannot find an install package in the 
current setup.ini for.

-- 
Achim.

(on the road :-)

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-24 17:07 Thorsten Kampe
2017-04-24 19:45 ` Achim Gratz [this message]

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