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. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20200217/1a9d68c2/attachment.sig>
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