From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4651 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2012 02:14:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4641 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2012 02:14:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm14.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO nm14.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (66.94.237.215) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:13:58 +0000 Received: from [66.94.237.201] by nm14.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2012 02:13:56 -0000 Received: from [98.139.221.60] by tm12.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2012 02:13:56 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp101.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2012 02:13:56 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: ycweUreswBCK.d0cygTP5tXwHncbOU7YVeVfIxOQoyRMI2IuIKLmUqE- Received: from [192.168.10.168] (lmh_users-groups@71.232.178.51 with plain) by smtp101.biz.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2012 19:13:56 -0700 PDT Message-ID: <4FFF8461.6010007@molconn.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:14:00 -0000 From: LMH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration References: <4FFF12A6.5000100@molconn.com> <176672993.20120713050916@mtu-net.ru> In-Reply-To: <176672993.20120713050916@mtu-net.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00257.txt.bz2 So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the install directory, will it figure out what packages are already installed? I suppose I could test this sort of thing, but I figure that someone already knows the answer. Is there any reason to not re-use my current version of setup.exe, minus that setup cache? I think it is pretty recent. In the other thread, you asked me to not "top post". I'm not familiar with that term, so I'm not sure exactly what I need to avoid. I believe that I replied to the last post in the thread to make my post. I do try very hard to comply with proper posting procedures, so I would appreciate some clarification. LMH -- 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