From: LMH <lmh_users-groups@molconn.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: offline cygwin install question
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CC9DC1.3000309@molconn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130627191501.GA5391@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
> I don't see why. If the directory is duplicated precisely I don't see
> how it could matter.
What I was referring to here was to just copy the cygwin local package
directory that contains setup.exe and the http% mirror directories, not
the directory that contains installed cygwin. When I moved the local
package directory to a new machine and ran setup.exe with install from
local directory, there sometimes were problems.
If there was only one http% directory
/http%3a%2f%2fwww.gtlib.gatech.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f
/setup.exe
/setup.log
(meaning all of the cygwin install on the machine where I took the
setup.exe dir from had been done from the same mirror)
then running setup.exe worked fine and I got a functional cygwin.
If found that if there were several mirror directories,
/http%3a%2f%2fcygutils.fruitbat.org%2fITP%2fmingw-gcc%2f
/http%3a%2f%2fmirror.cs.vt.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2fcygwin%2f
/http%3a%2f%2fwww.gtlib.gatech.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f
/setup.exe
/setup.log
then running setup.exe would install only the packages in the last
mirror used and there would be a number of things missing from the
install (like the cygwin.dll). I did this before I knew that I could
just move the entire installed cygwin directory to a different machine.
Regarding this set of instructions,
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00657.html
they seem to be a bit more involved than is necessary. My cygwin install
directory is less than 1GB, so what is the need to use tar? I believe
that when I last re-installed my current OS, I just copied my cygwin
folder to a backup drive and then copied it back to C: after my
re-install. Is there some reason why that is a bad idea?
LMH
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-27 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-27 2:35 LMH
2013-06-27 2:40 ` wynfield
2013-06-27 4:49 ` LMH
2013-06-27 8:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-27 13:08 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2013-06-27 8:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-27 17:00 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-27 18:25 ` LMH
2013-06-27 19:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-27 20:19 ` LMH [this message]
2013-06-27 20:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-28 22:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-09-08 5:40 R.Penney
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