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Re: Wipe out older versions in cygwin/latest, cygwin/contrib
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- Subject: Re: Wipe out older versions in cygwin/latest, cygwin/contrib
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:43:17 +1100
- References: <20010217002929.A31035@redhat.com>
Other than any GPL requirements.. Perhaps keeping the diffs from the next version backwards will do though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: Wipe out older versions in cygwin/latest, cygwin/contrib
> Our connection to sources.redhat.com is really getting swamped lately
> and it is all Cygwin's fault.
>
> When I look at what people are downloading, I see:
>
> /pub/cygwin/latest/gcc/gcc-2.95.2-3-src.tar.gz
>
> a lot.
>
> I don't know why this is, but I do know how to fix it -- I'll delete
> the file.
>
> Is there really any reason to keep obsolete tarballs that are several
> months old? I can't think of any.
>
> Unless someone has a good reason for keeping these, I'm going to
> start deleting them.
>
> cgf
>