From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from omta001.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net (omta001.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net [3.97.99.32]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D56F63858C2D for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:43:56 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org D56F63858C2D Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=Shaw.ca Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=shaw.ca ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org D56F63858C2D Authentication-Results: server2.sourceware.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=3.97.99.32 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1701107038; cv=none; b=riA6IQlKG5iunFuw9npPuWHDiANit4YevUPGl8T7+YxIKi22Q2iagumllwPxs8cDRqpTfT0jJEyb0AhYjjK9On/SmG4DQ1Ns1JTjY5yYccmA+htJPrtPu66x0tNT0GR68TIylOpI7KP+4bLl0r40dmCZyf6EQbrzOly1csxFyXY= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1701107038; c=relaxed/simple; bh=LvmrQFvPj0xb2ELS9Lk74/sOZoXgaL5UAQ2hIElml4s=; h=DKIM-Signature:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:From; b=nxprFeNwko4SW/5ll/pp50zxDSDe3B+QSNxVV5JLxPRp6RYs3imvhDnnza9New3SfSHkGxKmH3CUKIikipxlxrlJ3UI75mK7FodZXSwDgUK50mEqtDk6bTOp6Sxa2f6fbPDB8vvFt/03a490cV5UOh/xi1heXW9wQBKxJcN1zzk= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org Received: from shw-obgw-4003a.ext.cloudfilter.net ([10.228.9.183]) by cmsmtp with ESMTPS id 7dYersdgt8jpT7feFrCkbv; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:43:55 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=shaw.ca; s=s20180605; t=1701107035; bh=LvmrQFvPj0xb2ELS9Lk74/sOZoXgaL5UAQ2hIElml4s=; h=Date:Subject:To:References:From:Reply-To:In-Reply-To; b=LKX4/VZmXjfy8T2r5hlGnv+MSmzuz4tzdwnqyKwyqPpO/O9dMQQyE3vXE/NKx8Goo YYKXKLNjZZpLmWnZXlWCGuX2g3pbWqJ33CfaCzqsCOI8Fu6mnbn9QXq4mBFkdBccKz cS3iNgjkhcBSUdMNQaTx9Xm9i20ILsp8JdHhaaGvZDQwO9I/9CyJ4l61D5GvkXQE0R ECfIuPv9HRYvmK6lUUd1o/RcjEF0QlfSqOzqUl273khKwTt/2FS7GI2+8vayIoh91B +3wh/aALcYahQQ/6s+N4ezXmHwNi7iUFOSZw2td7n50reooY7UslHNFDCCm5qU2dND d12DQQMepOsSA== Received: from [10.0.0.5] ([184.64.102.149]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id 7feErVKfvMsNf7feErYPhp; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:43:55 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=KJNJsXJo c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6564d55b a=DxHlV3/gbUaP7LOF0QAmaA==:117 a=DxHlV3/gbUaP7LOF0QAmaA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=L0L4DeM5gjly-F12uhUA:9 a=7Zwj6sZBwVKJAoWSPKxL6X1jA+E=:19 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-ID: <7b39e912-1cf4-4ab7-b3a4-c0973d186594@Shaw.ca> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:43:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC Content-Language: en-CA To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <09578ac85d3f64c90f2b6610545bd8dc@plebeian.com> <87plzvd2ok.fsf@> From: Brian Inglis Organization: Inglis Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <87plzvd2ok.fsf@> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfM4vqpQWpbr8aoQujbeZ+50K5c3zqI6hx2eWszy5iyaBmjZ8lAPBgY9dH3atEDj5pSIop3V6ufq6BFrx3WV9qXleDqpAwWv6JzfH3r6MxChbv5lF0ihX q9benNOIsWa8G5zWTbYhziAHIPDpD8DirBG6pX1nF5rjm38+EFbqU2SZ8LqBRh88QuNe5JfSN6x7Sw== X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 2023-11-27 01:24, ASSI via Cygwin wrote: > Chris Wagner via Cygwin writes: >> If you just want to duplicate the package selection this trick is all >> you need. >> 1. Get the current list: cygcheck -cd |perl -ane '$\=","; print $F[0]' >> 2. Ignore the "Cygwin,Package" at the front. >> 3. Copy all that and put it as the command line argument to setup.exe -P > That will lose the information about which packages were installed by > explicit user request vs. installed as a dependency. What that means is the complete information is only available in: /etc/setup/installed.db which has header: INSTALLED.DB 3 then a list of installed packages in which each line specifies 3 fields: NAME NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.bz2 MANUALLY_PICKED_FLAG in that 2nd field .tar.bz2 is the historically available download format but only VERSION-RELEASE is now significant, and the only packages you should be selecting to install are those which have a 3rd field manually picked flag == 1 as the others with 0 are automatically installed dependencies e.g. $ awk '1 < FNR && /1/ == $3 { printf( "%s ", $1) }; END { printf( "\n" ) }' \ ~/cygwin-64t/etc/setup/installed.db | wc 1 52 686 $ grep -c '\s0$' ~/cygwin-64t/etc/setup/installed.db 364 $ awk '1 < FNR && /1/ == $3 { printf( "%s ", $1) }; END { printf( "\n" ) }' \ ~/cygwin-64/etc/setup/installed.db | wc 1 884 12124 $ grep -c '\s0$' ~/cygwin-64/etc/setup/installed.db 1638 so from 2-7 times as many packages as manually picked could be dependencies automatically installed. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry