Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Wed, 17 May 2006, Jim Easton wrote:
> > From: "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > On 16 May 2006 09:20, Jim Easton wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Would someone please tell me what file(s) I would have to take with > > > me (eg. on a disk) to someone else's machine, both running windows > > > XP, whereby I could get setup to download the same cygwin components > > > that are on my machine? > > > > How about the local package cache dir? That'd do nicely, then you > > just run setup.exe on the new machine and tell it to install from > > local directory, and point it there. I believe this is in the FAQ > > somewhere but don't have a reference to hand. > > Hi Dave, > > Thank you for the suggestion. Correct me if I'm wrong but I > take it that that would be the stuff in cygwin.disk? > > I should clarify. I have no problem with loading new versions of > things, what I was after was a way of priming setup with the list of > names at the "Select packages" step. > > I could accomplish the same thing by writing my current config on > a piece of paper and just check off the names at the new machine > but that seems so labourious. > > The file I'm looking for wouldn't happen to be setup.ini by any > chance would it. You could get that on a floopy. :-) Jim, in that case you're looking for /etc/setup/installed.db with all version numbers replaced by "0.0-0". Just place it into c:\cygwin\etc\setup on the target machine, and run setup normally, clicking "Next" all the way through. FWIW, we should probably have a "dump bundle" function in setup to allow creating files like this. Eventually... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/