On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 13:12 AM marco.atzeri wrote: >> I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar >> fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local registry... >> Make a basic installation on the new system, then sync the rest. >> An even cleaner way might be to clone your installation via setup, using >> /etc/setup/installed.db - maybe someone has a script for that - >> and then just sync the /home hierarchy. > >script I wrote some time ago for re-installation > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46829532/cygwin-save-package-selections-for-later-reinstall/ > > Just for the record: I just played with the script provided in stackoverflow which generates a bat file, and it seems that the behaviour of the '-P' switch of setup has changed because now it explicitely needs the version of the package (at least for me it didn't worked without the version number: " -P package=version_as_seen_by_cygcheck") . Can someone (probably Jon Turney) confirm this usage of the '-P' switch (BTW the mandatory '=' is explained nowhere - Nor in 'setup -h' or the setup web pages - and can be seen only in the source code). By needing the version number the script on stackoverflow will then generate a "too long" command in the bat file and it will crash; I had to modify it manually to split the command line in 4 ... Note on the script: if you forgot to run it before loosing your cygwin tree, it can still work after a 'Base' installation if you kept the old installed.db file and replace (temporary) the actual installed.db with this one :)
Cheers, Le ven. 4 févr. 2022 à 13:13, marco atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:52 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar > > fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local registry... > > Make a basic installation on the new system, then sync the rest. > > An even cleaner way might be to clone your installation via setup, using > > /etc/setup/installed.db - maybe someone has a script for that - > > and then just sync the /home hierarchy. > > script I wrote some time ago for re-installation > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46829532/cygwin-save-package-selections-for-later-reinstall/ > > > > Thomas > Regards > Marco > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
