setup - duplicating cygwin

Thu May 18 07:43:00 GMT 2006

Hi Igor,
> Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.

Oops - sorry. Some people prefer it :-( Does not include me actually.
It gets a little hard to follow if it's not consistent.
> On 2006年5月17日, Jim Easton wrote:
>> > > From:	"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@XXXXXX.XXX>
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.

Oops really sorry this time. I knew better - I just didn't notice
it. I will endevour to do better in the future. :-(
> > > On 16 May 2006 09:20, Jim Easton wrote:
...
> > 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.
...
>> 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.

Hey great! Thank you very much, I even found the file. :-) My but
there's a lot of stuff in there (I must remember my home directory too).
>> FWIW, we should probably have a "dump bundle" function in setup to allow
> creating files like this. Eventually...

Well, if the above works don't sweat it.
I'm also going to include it in my backups.
> HTH,

Me too. I will give it a try but that won't be for a couple of weeks
- I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks again.
	Jim
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