Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20031010153452.02edeac0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:38:32 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22 In-Reply-To: <20031010192212.GC4771@redhat.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20031010132540.02f1ca80@127.0.0.1> <86ismxlpzv.fsf@wondark.www.rattieworldocomfort.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20031009231000.02eeb780@127.0.0.1> <86ismxlpzv.fsf@wondark.www.rattieworldocomfort.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20031010132540.02f1ca80@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:22 PM 10/10/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:12PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>At 12:31 AM 10/10/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >>>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:20PM -0700, David M. Karr wrote: >>>>Is there any way of "copying" a 1.3.22 distribution from one box to another >>>>box? I know it's not that simple, but is there a list of straightforward >>>>places I'd have to patch to make it work (like registry changes)? >>> >>>It is incredibly simple. Just copy the c:\cygwin directory tree. >>>Use "mount -m" to dump the commands to duplicate your mount table >>>layout to a .bat file and then run the .bat file on the other >>>system to recreate your mount table. >> >> >>Right. Or if one prefers an opaque process, run setup, choose install >>from a local directory and point it to the local package directory cache >>on the other machine. >> >>I can't believe I'm telling someone how to *not* fix a bug! ;-) > >Yeah, me too. But I had to rise to the challenge of the "it's not that >simple". I guess we can chalk this perception up to the success of setup. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/