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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:38:52 -0400
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On 7/12/2012 4:31 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:
>> While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then
>> plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things
>> like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' that
>> will need updating.  A reinstall of Cygwin avoids some of these little
>> clean-up tasks that come from just copying over a previous installation.
>
> Would one be able to re-execute the post install scripts to manage it?

Well, in the case of the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files, not entirely.
000-cygwin-post-install.sh will create these files but only if they don't
exist already.

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Larry

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