On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Leake <[email protected]> wrote: > Ray Donnelly <[email protected]> writes: > >> 1. Run your existing MSYS2 installation via msys32_shell.bat >> 2. Make a list of installed packages: >> pacman -Qqe | xargs echo > /c/packages.txt >> 3. Rename your msys?? folder to msys??.old > > 3a. run the installer >
I updated the wiki entry for this: 4. Run the installer (or untar the base package, run msys2_shell.bat, then exit it). >> 4. To save server bandwidth and your time, move your old cached >> packages directory to the new installation: >> In Explorer, remove the empty msys??\var\cache\pacman\pkg folder >> then replace it with msys??.old\var\cache\pacman\pkg >> 5. Run the new MSYS2 installation via msys2_shell.bat >> 6. Re-install your old packages, by entering: >> pacman -S --needed --force $(cat /c/packages.txt) > > All completed smoothly. > > Emacs successfully builds from the git repo. > >> This >> is a good time to mention that autorebase.bat is never needed for >> MSYS2 64bit - one of the important advantages of that version. > > Excellent! > >> MSYS2 changes: >> pacman.exe and bash.exe are now mostly statically linked (msys-2.0.dll >> is always dynamic). This means that our update procedure is a lot >> cleaner now (more work is being done on that). > > Thanks for all your work on this! > > -- > -- Stephe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
