X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <20080318232317.GA22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <47E05D4D.8000000@byu.net> <20080319040517.GD22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <47E13AA0.F00BFF3F@dessent.net> Subject: RE: FAQ suggestion Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:25:36 -0000 Message-ID: <00dc01c889dd$dc974ce0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <47E13AA0.F00BFF3F@dessent.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Brian wrote on 19 March 2008 16:09: > NightStrike wrote: > > > If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how > > (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) > > I do this all the time, it's trivial. You don't have to keep them in > sync, they can be totally different versions. "umount -A" (create a > mounts.bat first if you haven't) on the Cygwin tree A, cd to cygwin tree > B, run mounts.bat (previously generated from mount -m) in Cygwin tree B, > and you're done. This assumes you don't have Cygwin added to the system > path (instead allowing it to be set by /etc/profile), otherwise you need > to swap that too, but that's easy. > > Brian Also don't forget to shutdown any running services when swapping over. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/