On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:52:20PM -0400, LMH wrote: >I have win7 64-bit computers set up in another location. It would seem >that the easiest option would be to make sure that one of those is up to >date and then just tar up the cygwin directory and move it.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-06/msg00657.html >I have also >found that you can just tar up the local package directory and then run >a local install, but this seems to have issues if there are packages in >the local install dir from more than one mirror. I don't see why. If the directory is duplicated precisely I don't see how it could matter. >If I download the normal setup.exe to a 64-bit windows install, will it >automatically install the 64-bit version? No. >I have never seen the setup64.exe that was mentioned in a previous >post. Where would that be located? 64-bit Cygwin is currently still in beta. setup64 is in the '64bit' directory on any mirror. You can't use it to change a Cygwin installation from 32 - 64 bit though. cgf -- 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
