Re: Offline installer GCC Compiler Suite

Keith Marshall <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:26:01 +0000

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On 16/02/2020 22:53, Keith Marshall wrote:
> If you keep the master clean, ...
> [...snip...]
> ... but when upgrading clone only the content of
> $MINGW_ROOT/var/cache/mingw-get/packages, and of
> $MINGW_ROOT/var/lib/mingw-get/data, *excluding* profile.xml, ...

Actually, a truly clean master would not include profile.xml; if you
provided your own master copy, then maybe you would want to keep all
clones in sync, with each upgrade.

> ... and *all* sysroot-*.xml and manifest-*.xml files, ...

These, you *definitely* do not want to clone, during an upgrade; they
record the state of the system you are upgrading, so the upgrade process
itself needs to update them!  If you overwrite them beforehand, you will
corrupt the installation record ...

> ... then run mingw-get in place, on the cloned offline installation,
> to perform the upgrade; ...
... and this will become hopelessly confused.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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