Re: Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

[Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 17:15, Eliot Moss via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I
> >> have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc
> >> to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from
> >> cygwin.com to the win11 PC. I ran it and chose "Install from Local
> >> Directory" and only one shortcut for "Cygwin64 Terminal" was created on the
> >> 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.

Does Cygwin have a way to dump the list of installed packages, and
feed that list back to Cygwin setup.exe?

Ced
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