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From: Brent Epp <brent@pdc.ca>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16fc6084788.2780.a1382e26d1292f71ec6ef0cd03d49346@pdc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR09MB28773B7AAEF7C4687776C169A50D0@SN6PR09MB2877.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

Fair enough.  I don't think I've encountered any scripts that modify the 
system in my use of cygwin, so I didn't think of it.  You're correct, 
"mostly portable" is more accurate.


On January 20, 2020 20:33:22 "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via 
cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

>> Cygwin is totally portable!
>
> I wouldn't be so sure, as some package installation scripts do modify the 
> actual system, which is not contained within the Cygwin installation tree.
> But mostly it is indeed portable.
>
>> You can simply copy the installation folder
>
> If you think that didn't occur to me, then please read my original message 
> that said:
>
>> > I want to avoid to dumb-copy the entire C:\cygwin tree from one PC to another
>
> Thank you for your time, though.
>
> Anton
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-21  0:58 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-21  1:27 ` Brent Epp
2020-01-31 10:25   ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 11:29     ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 12:05       ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 12:54       ` Thomas Wolff
2020-01-31 14:06         ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-02-01 10:05           ` Andrey Repin
2020-02-01 11:21             ` BGINFO4X
2020-02-03 16:40               ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-02-03 17:01                 ` BGINFO4X
2020-02-04 17:16                   ` Ulli Horlacher
     [not found] ` <16fc5b08e80.2780.a1382e26d1292f71ec6ef0cd03d49346@pdc.ca>
2020-01-21  2:33   ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-21  2:55     ` Brent Epp [this message]
2020-01-21  4:46 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-01-21 20:33 ` Achim Gratz
2020-01-28 21:35 ` Andrey Repin
2020-01-28 22:00   ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-21 19:17 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin
2020-01-31 14:06 KARL BOTTS
2020-01-31 14:13 ` Ulli Horlacher
2020-01-31 19:21   ` Achim Gratz
2020-01-31 20:25     ` Brian Inglis

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