Re: Windows upgrade

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, Alejandro Benitez!

> I just don't know what I'll need to tweak /
> migrate so that the new Windows installation installed on top of the same
> drive that currently holds the 32 bit cygwin knows it's there. I'm betting
> some registry entries and environment variables. Does anyone know these
> tweaks for certain? I need cygwin to be fully functional, I mean setup.exe
> needs to be able to install packages, otherwise it won't be of much use.

> I might also be wrong and need to install cygwin64 as I upgrade Windows. Fingers are crossed.

All you'd need to do (to be on safest possible side) is to issue

    rebase-trigger full

then run a normal setup session to the end at least once, specifying your
existing Cygwin installation directory as the target.

If any issues would arise after that, please check
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html

and if all else fails, follow the
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 6:05:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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