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Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:13:39 +0100 |
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--------------000901050405030305050703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10.03.2010 15:56, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 3/10/2010 2:38 AM, Olle Olsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I found the following >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00753.html >> which might provide one practical solution. Will try this. > > Thanks for the vote of confidence but since that was a fairly > labor intensive way of doing it and came at a time when 'setup.exe' > wasn't as equipped as it is today to handle this more directly, I > would no longer advocate going that route. Using 'setup.exe' at > the command line and specifying the packages you want is a better > way to go. As I understand the sparse description setup --help gives for -P, you would have to list all packages separately. I don't feel that's easier than to use a slightly modified copy of installed.db. An option to use a package list from a file (ignoring version information) would be helpful, and a hint how to get that information from an existing installation. Actually this reminds me of a script I made a few weeks ago to recover a damaged installed.db (not strictly related, sorry); After I had switched setup target directories (for a second test installation of cygwin on a machine), somehow installed.db of my first installation was missing all my extra packages and setup wanted to install everything again, so I recovered installed.db from the package directory. Script attached in case it's of interest for anyone. ------ Thomas --------------000901050405030305050703 Content-Type: text/plain; name="installed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="installed" IyEgL2Jpbi9zaAoKIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMj IyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMK IyByZWNvdmVyIGJyb2tlbiBpbnN0YWxsZWQuZGIgZnJvbSBwYWNrYWdlIGRv d25sb2FkIGRpcmVjdG9yeQoKcGFja2Rpcj0kKGN5Z3BhdGggJChjYXQgL2V0 Yy9zZXR1cC9sYXN0LWNhY2hlKSkKCmVjaG8gSU5TVEFMTEVELkRCIDIKCihj ZCAiJHBhY2tkaXIiOyBmaW5kIC4gLW5hbWUgIiouYnoyIikgfApzZWQgLWUg InMsLiovLCwiIC1lICJzLFwoLVswLTldXCksIFwxLCIgLWUgInMsXChbXiBd KlwpIFwoLipcKSxcMVwyIFwxLCIgfApzb3J0IC1uciB8IHVuaXEgLWYgMSB8 IHNvcnQgLW4gfApzZWQgLWUgInMsXCguKlwpIFwoW14gXSpcKSxcMiBcMSAw LCIKCmVjaG8gPiYyCmVjaG8gIlJlZGlyZWN0IG91dHB1dCB0byAvZXRjL3Nl dHVwL2luc3RhbGxlZC5kYiB0byBvdmVyd3JpdGUgKENBVVRJT04hKSIgPiYy Cg== --------------000901050405030305050703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple --------------000901050405030305050703--
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