From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93707 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2018 21:22:21 -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 93698 invoked by uid 89); 26 Nov 2018 21:22:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=taught, blown, H*Ad:D*t-online.de, H*M:online X-HELO: mailout01.t-online.de Received: from mailout01.t-online.de (HELO mailout01.t-online.de) (194.25.134.80) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:22:19 +0000 Received: from fwd07.aul.t-online.de (fwd07.aul.t-online.de [172.20.27.150]) by mailout01.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id A4E8842FFC9F for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:22:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.178.24] (ZY3g2rZBohQCMEztpyxHp-kMvMRgBdbY65wxpOYuXJ6w6Uua8Wyr9hSjHrpv-6ygxq@[217.246.156.193]) by fwd07.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1gROKW-2rj5oe0; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:22:08 +0100 Subject: Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <1ef634d1-5ace-88ba-4869-85597adb5b7f@t-online.de> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:22:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-11/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 Am 26.11.2018 um 21:32 schrieb Gilbert St. Firmin: > Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new > computers? Possibly. If that can be taught to copy all the attributes used by Cygwin, without running into the usual problems we see whenever Windows tools are used to handle those. But I really very much doubt it. This really is a full blown chicken-and-egg situation: the only tools really known to be able to correctly copy Cygwin files including all their ACLs are Cygwin itself, and its installer. All other tools are suspect. It all comes back down to what I wrote in my initial answer: is remote access to a Cygwin mirror server really so much slower than your local network that there's even any gain to be had from going this untested route? I.e. why even risk this? -- 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