X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:32:28 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FAQ suggestion Message-ID: <20080319163228.GC24865@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080318232317.GA22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <47E05D4D.8000000@byu.net> <20080319040517.GD22446@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <47E13AA0.F00BFF3F@dessent.net> <00dc01c889dd$dc974ce0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00dc01c889dd$dc974ce0$2708a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:25:36PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >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. > > Also don't forget to shutdown any running services when swapping over. For the record, the above is what I do when I need to have two different installations. I used to do this when I worked on Red Hat's "GNUpro" release of Cygwin. cgf -- 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/