RE: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-13 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 02:14 > Subject: Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration > > So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If > I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-13 Thread ping
On 07/12/2012 09:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, LMH! Totally unnecessary. If you've maintained your installation for quite some time, updating regularly, then setup cache contains lots of obsolete packages. Would be much, much faster to just burn it and download new setup.exe when you n

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Mark Geisert
> In the other thread, you asked me to not "top post". I'm not familiar > with that term, so I'm not sure exactly what I need to avoid. ..mark -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread LMH
So I will just tar up the cygwin directory and put it back after the new install. If I download a new copy of setup.exe and point it at the install directory, will it figure out what packages are already installed? I suppose I could test this sort of thing, but I figure that someone already kno

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, LMH! > I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to > completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current > settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re-install? Just pack up the installation directory, and splash it

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/12/2012 5:04 PM, LMH wrote: If you do the old standard, mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l > /etc/group will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those directories now first? For these files, your above recipe will work. The location of the cygwin directory will

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread LMH
If you do the old standard, mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l > /etc/group will that take care of it, or would I need to delete what is in those directories now first? The location of the cygwin directory will be the same. Is there a list of the windows registry entries for cygwin? I will

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread K Stahl
Not sure if the following will work, but couldn't you use something like: Old machine: cygcheck -cd package_list.log New machine: setup --packages < package_list.log You would have to copy your home directory and possibly massage the input data. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/prob

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/12/2012 4:31 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things like local user and group accounts in '/etc/pa

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then > plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things > like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' that > will nee

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 7/12/2012 4:10 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, LMH wrote: I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re-i

Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration

2012-07-12 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:08 PM, LMH wrote: > I am getting ready to re-install XP and I would like to avoid having to > completely redo my cygwin install. Is there a way to export the current > settings (installed packages, etc) and then re-import it after re-install? > > I was thinking of just cop