From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2725 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 20:31:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 2714 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 20:31:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f43.google.com) (209.85.160.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:31:04 +0000 Received: by pbcwz7 with SMTP id wz7so4424139pbc.2 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:31:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.130.67 with SMTP id oc3mr8149995pbb.18.1342125063952; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.82.6 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:31:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FFF3343.5010103@cygwin.com> References: <4FFF12A6.5000100@molconn.com> <4FFF3343.5010103@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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/msg00241.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then > plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things > like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' that > will need updating. A reinstall of Cygwin avoids some of these little > clean-up tasks that come from just copying over a previous installation. Would one be able to re-execute the post install scripts to manage it? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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