From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from barramail.cs.umass.edu (barramail.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.3]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BDB53858D33 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:38:59 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 5BDB53858D33 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu ARC-Filter: OpenARC Filter v1.0.0 sourceware.org 5BDB53858D33 Authentication-Results: server2.sourceware.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=128.119.240.3 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1700728742; cv=none; b=sU+2PhliVtKwDR2YysnrbYo5aW6zUJ4E/EgynPYPkVF+Nma7TRf82YKV3dqslHmDqm9d++PU8zujzNxoZLqKmQkOcHDd0tVy06ub63vNoNxOWVKZX44PzAES8GsbSmMyzZCrd2hnLBPdHDHmZbC1VLfNPSPNRXzXazC62eSVstw= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=sourceware.org; s=key; t=1700728742; c=relaxed/simple; bh=wuzh7qb7qiCCBcuG5Y+o5I2MvAuV6twFjKqHUaz1/t4=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:From; b=YJq+lMye+D/wSw4H5pDe0fHbZxWacKxbRRz+oFdN1NXBGhou/VheYfsZ6SBxrWnnZhGpp3Rjs4auWFWSpPVxpyPFq+RoaeSnP3XFHWpHuaxbSy96ZDpMSI5wIASHsPq8bprmfuaP0Y5w1RvToDkpYQlxHofaY+uU1/AH1id4GdM= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; server2.sourceware.org X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1700709958-24039d196dde9ec0001-w5GHUG Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136]) by barramail.cs.umass.edu with ESMTP id 2HlmOs2rtuWIyfKs (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:25:58 -0500 (EST) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: moss@cs.umass.edu X-Barracuda-RBL-Trusted-Forwarder: 128.119.240.136 Received: from [192.168.50.223] (c-24-62-201-179.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.201.179]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 988A8401C1A2; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:25:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <8e38b937-1a61-fbf7-4b72-9a836d6d3520@cs.umass.edu> X-Barracuda-RBL-Trusted-Forwarder: 192.168.50.223 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:25:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Subject: Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC Content-Language: en-US X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC To: Jose Isaias Cabrera , Bill Stewart , "cygwin@cygwin.com" References: <147f983f-eab8-4605-11e6-14709c56d87b@cs.umass.edu> From: Eliot Moss In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Barracuda-Connect: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu[128.119.240.136] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1700709958 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 X-Barracuda-URL: https://barramail.cs.umass.edu:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at cs.umass.edu X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 1322 X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=5.7 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.117129 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,NICE_REPLY_A,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 11/22/2023 4:38 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 11:15 AM, Eliot Moss expressed: >> >> On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > [clip] >> >> desktop. No Cygwin nor Cygwin-X folders were created on the Start menu. The >> >> original cygwin from the Win10 PC had X installed also. >> >> >> > >> > I don't think "Install from Local Directory" means "reproduce same cygwin >> > installation on a separate computer". >> >> In fact, it means to install using the package files in some local directory, >> i.e., "assume the packages are already downloaded". >> >> It would be reasonable to copy over downloaded packages. >> >> I believe there are commands / techniques that would then make it fairly >> easy to install that specific set of packages "from scratch" (but from >> the local copy of the packages).  Copying *installed* file hierarchies >> is trickier because of permission / ownership concerns. > > Thanks, Eliot. Hmmm... I would have thought that by now this process would have been thought of. Not saying it hasn't, but since I don't have a ready answer to your question I was leaving that to other, more knowledgeable, folks to jump in and ill the gap :-) ... EM