X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: setup - duplicating cygwin In-Reply-To: from Igor Peshansky at "May 17, 2006 09:15:00 am" From: Jim Easton To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 01:43:48 -0600 (MDT) CC: pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu, Jim Easton X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] Message-Id: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Hi Igor, > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. Oops - sorry. Some people prefer it :-( Does not include me actually. It gets a little hard to follow if it's not consistent. > On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jim Easton wrote: > > > > From: "Dave Korn" > > . Thanks. Oops really sorry this time. I knew better - I just didn't notice it. I will endevour to do better in the future. :-( > > > On 16 May 2006 09:20, Jim Easton wrote: ... > > I should clarify. I have no problem with loading new versions of > > things, what I was after was a way of priming setup with the list of > > names at the "Select packages" step. ... > > Jim, in that case you're looking for /etc/setup/installed.db with all > version numbers replaced by "0.0-0". Just place it into > c:\cygwin\etc\setup on the target machine, and run setup normally, > clicking "Next" all the way through. Hey great! Thank you very much, I even found the file. :-) My but there's a lot of stuff in there (I must remember my home directory too). > > FWIW, we should probably have a "dump bundle" function in setup to allow > creating files like this. Eventually... Well, if the above works don't sweat it. I'm also going to include it in my backups. > HTH, Me too. I will give it a try but that won't be for a couple of weeks - I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again. Jim -- 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/