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.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, September 1, 2024 01:44:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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