Re: [Msys2-users] Announcing updated MSYS2 installers and project news.

[Stephen L. <ste...@st...>]

Ray Donnelly <min...@gm...> 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

> 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!

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