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On Fri 2020-01-31 (11:24), Ulli Horlacher wrote:

> On Mon 2020-01-20 (19:28), Brent Epp wrote:
> 
> > Cygwin is totally portable! You can simply copy the installation folder to 
> > another PC, copy the shortcut (edit target if needed) and it will work. 
> 
> How do you copy it?
> Which archive container do you use?
> 
> I have tried it with:
> 
> /: cat zip.bat
> cd C:\
> \7z\7za a -tzip -xr!cygwin64/home/* -xr!cygwin64/var/log/* tmp\cygwin64.zip cygwin64
> 
> But in resulting cygwin64.zip the directories /cygdrive /proc /usr/bin and /usr/lib are
> missing, because they are mount points.

I have now extracted this cygwin64.zip on a second Windows host using the
Windows bsdtar
I have started a mintty with bash:

The missing mountpoint directories were created automagically :-)


> Next problem is: the file permissions will not be restored.

And all symbolic links have been extracted as regular files :-(


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