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Re: Obtaining older packages...
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:58:02 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Obtaining older packages...
- References: <1114508366.ccb47880sebastianhaby@home.se>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Sebastian Haby wrote:
> Hey!
> Thanks ago, already had those sources from CVS laying around.
> I'll get the other source-code from some other place.
> How come older packages aren't kept online on atleast a couple of servers?
I kept the xorg-x11 6.7.0 packages for some time on www.cygwin.com but
had removed them a short time ago for several reasons
- make room for 6.8.2. The xorg-x11 packages are huge
- 6.7.0 is about one year old (it was released on april 7th 2004)
- setup.exe does only handle 3 releases. When doing updates I try to
keep the direct predecessor (for easy reverting an update) and a bit
older version for regression checks. eg 6.8.2-5, 6.8.2-4 and 6.8.1-7
For 6.8.0 and 6.8.1 I kept 6.7.0 but now it's too old to be useful
in general
bye
ago
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