> -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 02:14 > Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration > > So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If > I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the install directory, will it > figure out what packages are already installed?
Yes. The list of packages is in /etc/setup/installed.db, as best I can tell. Other setup information is in there as well. > Is there any > reason to not re-use my current version of setup.exe, minus that setup > cache? I think it is pretty recent. It might still be out of date. Who knows. I always use the latest setup version when upgrading my Cygwin packages; I don't even keep a local copy of it. -- 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
