X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C163D70.2050101@bopp.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:32:16 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question on setup.exe References: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602E19C9054@server03> In-Reply-To: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602E19C9054@server03> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 6/14/2010 9:20 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: > > Hi there, > > assume I had a cygwin installation on one computer with the local package directory located in c:\mylocalpackage. > > Is it possible to copy this directory to a other computer and use the -L flag (local install) to install a identical copy of my Cygwin installation without access to the net ??(because the content of the local package dir constist of dirs corresponding to the Cygwin mirrors) Yes, that is possible. Just be aware that the second computer will only be able to install whatever packages were downloaded to the first computer. The local package directory is not a complete mirror. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple