Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes: >On 08/18/2014 10:30 AM, Paul wrote: >>Andrey Repin <anrdaemon <at> yandex.ru> writes: >>> When I wanted to replicate my cygwin installation from a 32-bit >>> machine to another 32-bit machine, it was straightforward. I would >>> simply reinstall all installed packages, but have the downloaded >>> packages got to a folder which I then burn to CD. >>> >>> However, my next machine is a 64-bit machine. So I have to use the >>> 64-bit setup. Is there an almost-as-painless way to replicate the >>> 64-bit version of the packages that I have installed on my 32-bit >>> machine? >> >> You contradicting yourself. 64-bit packages are entirely different >> files than 32-bit packages. > Yes, I understand. I was referring to the 64-bit versions of my > 32-bit packages. It took quite some period of discovery to determine > my operational needs and the packages required. I'm hoping to avoid > that re-experiencing that. > > You shouldn't have allot of trouble matching the 64-bit version of any > package with the 32-bit version. Assuming there is a 64-bit version of > the package you want, package names are typically very similar between > the two architectures.
Understood, Larry. It's just that there are so many packages, and I don't want to manually find all the matching packages. Before, if I wanted to replicate a cygwin install on another machine, I just reinstalled all my packages, but saved the packages to a folder that I could write to disc. I can't do that if I want to replicate my packages as 62-bit versions. -- 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
