From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25051 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2011 09:45:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 25039 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Dec 2011 09:45:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_DP X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from outrelay02.libero.it (HELO outrelay02.libero.it) (212.52.84.102) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:45:26 +0000 X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0209.4EEF07B5.001A,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-libjamoibt: 1821 Received: from wmail68 (172.31.0.31) by outrelay02.libero.it (8.5.140) (authenticated as efa@iol.it) id 4EEA036000562D93 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:45:25 +0100 Message-ID: <10535930.4729331324287925011.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:45:00 -0000 From: "efa@iol.it" Reply-To: "efa@iol.it" To: Subject: saving list of packages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SenderIP: 213.215.240.18 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00401.txt.bz2 hi, I need to save the list of installed packages, to: 1) reinstall Cygwin on the same system or 2) made the same custom Cygwin installation on another system Is there an easy method equivalent to the Debian distribution: To save: $ dpkg --get-selections > installedPackagesDate.txt To recover: # dpkg --set-selections < installedPackagesDate.txt && apt-get dselect-upgrade thanks, Valerio -- 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