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Clean-up Reinstall
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:50:52 -0400
- Subject: Clean-up Reinstall
Today I noticed that I had a lot of files from the gvfs package in my
cygwin installation. Cygcheck -c showed that gvfs wasn't installed.
That was strange.
It seems that when uninstalling a bunch of packages a long time ago*,
a lot of files were left behind. Not just config files, which would
be expected, but EXEs and DLLs. So it seems that when some things were
uninstalled, they weren't. (* I removed X, since I was never using it.
Probably also some other things.)
As a test, I did a new install in a non-standard directory, copying over
/etc (so setup could find /etc/setup/install.db), /home, and /usr/local.
My old installation took up 2.8G and had 120k files. The new install
had 15k files occupying 400M.
So my question is this. Is there a recommended way do a clean-up
reinstall? I suppose that my real question is what directories need to be
copied from the old to the new besides /etc, /home, and /usr/local? Also,
are there any files in those directories that should not be copied over?
Please excuse me if this is already in the archives, but I couldn't find
anything that addressed this exact point.
Thanks for your help,
- Barry
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