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 Message-ID: <030801c5735f$a86cd800$e6ec6f83@chimaera> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Cygwin Newsgroup" , "Oliver Geisen" References: Subject: Re: Clone cygwin-setup settings from one PC to another Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:11:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Oliver Geisen wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to find out which packages installed via SETUP.EXE on > one PC and use > this information (selection) to automatically install the same on > another PC ? > > e.g. something like: > cygsetup > mypacks.ini > > setup.exe -install mypacks.ini Not at all as neatly as this, but after a fashion, sort of: Save a copy of the /etc/setup/installed.db file, and change all the version numbers in it to 0. Put the modified version of the file into the correct place on the second computer before starting setup. Max. -- 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/