Greetings, Jason Pyeron! > Sad to admit, but I have not updated Cygwin in a very long time.
> It takes a very long (more than an hour) time to update Cygwin due to the > amount of items installed. I have not had the luxury of nor running Cygwin > processes in that update time. > I have been wondering if an A/B directory approach may help. > Run from Cygwin.A, update Cygwin.B, stop processes and switch A and B. > Thoughts? The best course is to endure and upgrade. May be review the list of installed packages and remove those unused first. > I know this does not address the I have 60+ minty running, but this approach > can be done while rebooting. There's an easy way to know if any are still running. ps ax Then just hunt and shut down each of them. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Sunday, September 1, 2024 01:44:20 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple