Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] mxe/pkg cleanup

[Enoch]

Martin Gerhardy
<address@hidden> writes:

> Am 09.04.2014 16:27, schrieb Enoch:
>> Good day to all,
>>
>> Is there an automated way to remove old/unused packages from mxe/pkg?
>> If there isn't, there should :-)
>>
>> Thanks, Enoch.
>>
>>
> What exactly do you mean?

Here's a snapshot of my mxe/pkg directory:

  -rw-r--r--  1 enoch enoch  21455321 Nov 13  2012 binutils-2.23.1.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r--  1 enoch enoch  21440347 Mar 30  2013 binutils-2.23.2.tar.bz2
  -rw-r--r--  1 enoch enoch  22716802 Dec  4 20:51 binutils-2.24.tar.bz2

binutils-2.23* very likely can safely be removed.

> Remove packages in your installation of mxe that you no longer want to have?
> The problem here would be that not every lib contains an uninstall.
> One could of course record the installed files and just remove them.
> But it is possible that two packages might deliver the same file and
> then you would be screwed.
>
> Do you have ideas about that feature?

Some script is required that obtains the latest MXE required tarball
names {a}, the stored tarballs on mxe/pkg {b), and then remove {b}-{a}.

We shall need the help of MXE Makefile Gurus to create the set {a} :-)

Thanks, Enoch.