From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25898 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2020 02:55:45 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 25889 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jan 2020 02:55:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:1025, H*u:build, H*UA:build, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: qrelay220.mxroute.com Received: from qrelay220.mxroute.com (HELO qrelay220.mxroute.com) (172.82.139.220) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:55:43 +0000 Received: from filter004.mxroute.com (unknown [116.203.155.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ADH-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by qrelay220.mxroute.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01651260CB6 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:55:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from eagle.mxlogin.com (unknown [23.92.74.70]) by filter004.mxroute.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0ABD63EA1C for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:55:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Brent Epp To: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: <16fc6084788.2780.a1382e26d1292f71ec6ef0cd03d49346@pdc.ca> In-Reply-To: References: <16fc5b08e80.2780.a1382e26d1292f71ec6ef0cd03d49346@pdc.ca> User-Agent: AquaMail/1.7.0-80 (build: 100700001) Subject: RE: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AuthUser: brent@pdc.ca X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 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" 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 > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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