Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/03/19/11:33:08
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:25:36PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Brian wrote on 19 March 2008 16:09:
>
>> NightStrike wrote:
>>
>> > If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how
>> > (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?)
>>
>> I do this all the time, it's trivial. You don't have to keep them in
>> sync, they can be totally different versions. "umount -A" (create a
>> mounts.bat first if you haven't) on the Cygwin tree A, cd to cygwin tree
>> B, run mounts.bat (previously generated from mount -m) in Cygwin tree B,
>> and you're done. This assumes you don't have Cygwin added to the system
>> path (instead allowing it to be set by /etc/profile), otherwise you need
>> to swap that too, but that's easy.
>
> Also don't forget to shutdown any running services when swapping over.
For the record, the above is what I do when I need to have two different
installations. I used to do this when I worked on Red Hat's "GNUpro"
release of Cygwin.
cgf
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