From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80798 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2020 20:33:04 -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 80245 invoked by uid 89); 21 Jan 2020 20:33:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=adaptations, Youll, You'll X-HELO: vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:32:53 +0000 Received: from vsmx004.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.198]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D557F356B7 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [91.47.60.226]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DB94B19AE03 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:32:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin? References: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Anton C. via cygwin Lavrentiev's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:58:39 +0000") Message-ID: <87y2u0a6tv.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin writes: > I have a question, is there a way to clone-install Cygwin? Multiple, but if you like to do it without any extra tools you'll have to cheat a little. > Like I have installed whatever packages I selected on some PC, then > maintained that installation for a while, doing upgrades etc. Now I > need to install the exact same set on another PC. Can I pull up a > list and use it in a sort of a batch install with setup.exe? I want > to avoid to dumb-copy the entire C:\cygwin tree from one PC to > another, rather use a semi-automatic install procedure from scratch, > if possible, using the list of packages that I need. One way to do that is to take /etc/setup/installed.db from the old system an drop it to the same place in the new system, then run setup.exe and "reinstall" all packages. You'll have to re-do all customization steps that wereN#t done as part of the installation itself, but you seem to know that already. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- 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