From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13537 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 20:39:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 13525 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 20:39:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173011pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:39:02 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([unknown] [108.7.54.123]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0M7200NO1EOS2DXS@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-id: <4FFF35DC.2060403@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:39:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration References: <4FFF12A6.5000100@molconn.com> <4FFF3343.5010103@cygwin.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00242.txt.bz2 On 7/12/2012 4:31 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then >> plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things >> like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' that >> will need updating. A reinstall of Cygwin avoids some of these little >> clean-up tasks that come from just copying over a previous installation. > > Would one be able to re-execute the post install scripts to manage it? Well, in the case of the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files, not entirely. 000-cygwin-post-install.sh will create these files but only if they don't exist already. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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