On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:25:36PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >Brian wrote on 19 March 2008 16:09: > >> NightStrike wrote: >> >> > If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how >> > (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) >> >> I do this all the time, it's trivial. You don't have to keep them in >> sync, they can be totally different versions. "umount -A" (create a >> mounts.bat first if you haven't) on the Cygwin tree A, cd to cygwin tree >> B, run mounts.bat (previously generated from mount -m) in Cygwin tree B, >> and you're done. This assumes you don't have Cygwin added to the system >> path (instead allowing it to be set by /etc/profile), otherwise you need >> to swap that too, but that's easy. > > Also don't forget to shutdown any running services when swapping over.
For the record, the above is what I do when I need to have two different installations. I used to do this when I worked on Red Hat's "GNUpro" release of Cygwin. cgf -- 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/
