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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 10:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1764577188.20200201125607@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200131140622.GB6676@tik.uni-stuttgart.de>

Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!

> I tried to write an installer.bat which uses the Windows bsdtar, but it
> fails with:



> C:\>dir
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is EC42-8D26

>  Directory of C:\

> 31 Jan 2020  12:45        84.340.162 cygwin64.tgz
> 31 Jan 2020  14:38        91.960.715 cygwin64.zip
> 31 Jan 2020  12:45                45 cygwin64_addons.tgz
> 19 Mar 2019  05:52    <DIR>          PerfLogs
> 13 Jan 2020  13:12    <DIR>          Program Files
> 15 Jan 2020  17:32    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
> 13 Jan 2020  13:12    <DIR>          Users
> 13 Jan 2020  14:46    <DIR>          Windows
> 31 Jan 2020  13:59    <DIR>          xx
> 31 Jan 2020  14:43        91.960.889 xxx_20200131_144048.zip
>                4 File(s)    268.261.811 bytes
>                6 Dir(s)  45.442.043.904 bytes free

> C:\>tar -xf cygwin64.zip
> cygwin64/bin/apropos: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\apropos'
> cygwin64/bin/awk: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\awk'
> cygwin64/bin/bzcmp: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzcmp'
> cygwin64/bin/bzegrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzegrep'
> cygwin64/bin/bzfgrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzfgrep'
> cygwin64/bin/bzless: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzless'
> cygwin64/bin/captoinfo: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\captoinfo'
> ^C
> C:\>

> (I run it as administrator).

> Any idea what went wrong

Wrong is precisely the way you are trying to "install" it.

> and how I can fix it?

Use supported ways to install Cygwin.
Even if you would successfully unpack your clone, on a different system, you
would still need to run full rebase. It's way easier to just script setup.exe
to install what you need.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, February 1, 2020 12:53:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-01 10:05 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 [this message]
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
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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