Need reinstall package after upgrade msys2?

[wyzzoo]

I want use both 32bit and 64bit mingw. I don't find a way to use scoop install mignw to install both of them.
So I use scoop install msys2 to install a msys2, then install mingw32 and mingw64 through pacman.
after upgrade the msys2 use scoop, the mingw32 and mingw64 binary are lost.
Am I doing something wrong?

[Juemuren]

You're not doing anything wrong. The current scoop installation script only creates a persistent directory for msys2: home. All other files will be replaced after scoop update msys2. The newly installed msys2 will only have the basic runtime; any packages manually installed with pacman will be lost.

To resolve this issue, might need to add clang64, clangarm64, mingw32, mingw64, ucrt64, usr, etc to the list of persistent directories. I'm not sure if this change would have any drawbacks.

msys2 can update itself (for example, using pacman -Syu). If you have many packages installed with pacman and need to update msys2 frequently, I recommend using the official msys2 installer.

[Juemuren]

The newly installed msys2 will only have the basic runtime; any packages manually installed with pacman will be lost.

In fact, if you didn't run scoop cleanup msys2, the old files are still exist. You can find them in path/to/scoop/app/msys2.

[wyzzoo]

Thanks, I'll try to hold it on a specific version.