From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26103 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2013 17:00:03 -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 26090 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jun 2013 17:00:02 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_CG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:00:01 +0000 Received: from pool-72-74-71-174.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([72.74.71.174] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UsFY7-000FON-Uv for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:59:59 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200B660143 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:59:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/yFH4RM1lc4RFQP6BpRegY Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:00:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: offline cygwin install question Message-ID: <20130627165959.GA7709@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51CB4C14.4030909@molconn.com> <20130627083233.GI6966@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130627083233.GI6966@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00683.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:32:33AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jun 26 16:16, LMH wrote: >> I have a win7 64-bit machine that is not online and I want to update >> the cygwin install. What is the best method for doing this? Can I >> just copy the current cygwin install off of my XP 32-bit machine and >> drop it into the 64-bit win7 rig, or will that create a problem? > >The easiest way, especially if you have more than one machine, is >IMHO to create a local mirror of the Cygwin distro first: > > > mkdir cygwin > rsync -av --delete-after cygwin.com:cygwin/ cygwin > >This creates a local mirror of the 32 and 64 bit Cygwin versions. >The 32 bit version is more complete and runs on 32 and 64 bit, >as cgf pointed out. Yow. Please don't encourage people to perform high-bandwith-consuming operations to cygwin.com. I don't want to have to start limiting rsync access to cygwin.com because everyone thinks that doing full copies of the release area is a good idea. You could use an rsync mirror (see http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) for this but this seems like severe overkill for what the OP wanted. Duplicating their installation from one system to another shouldn't involve downloading the whole Cygwin release, whether it is 32-bit or 64-bit. cgf -- 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