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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:29:12 -0400
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From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22
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At 12:31 AM 10/10/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:20PM -0700, David M. Karr wrote:
>>Is there any way of "copying" a 1.3.22 distribution from one box to another
>>box?  I know it's not that simple, but is there a list of straightforward
>>places I'd have to patch to make it work (like registry changes)?
>
>It is incredibly simple.  Just copy the c:\cygwin directory tree.
>Use "mount -m" to dump the commands to duplicate your mount table
>layout to a .bat file and then run the .bat file on the other
>system to recreate your mount table.
>
>cgf


Right.  Or if one prefers an opaque process, run setup, choose install 
from a local directory and point it to the local package directory cache 
on the other machine.  

I can't believe I'm telling someone how to *not* fix a bug! ;-)



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