> having installed Cygwin on my old computer it's now time to move to new > hardware. Are there any Cygwin configuration or status files I could > copy from the old box to the new one which would cause "setup.exe" on > the new machine to automatically install the same packages as on the old > computer (except for version changes or new dependencies)?
You can drop /etc/setup/installed.db into the new installation directory and make them all "outdated": sed -i.bak -re 's/^(.+) .+ 0$/\1 \1-0-0.tar.bz 0/' /etc/setup/installed.db Running setup on this will then "update" all these packages. It will complain about the missing package lst.gz files of course, but you can ignore that. > One minor additional problem perhaps: the old box is 32 bit, while the > new one is 64 bit. There's only a handful of packages left where that makes a difference. > PS: Please also reply by personal mail as I am not subscribed to the > Cygwin mailing list. No can do via Gmane and the list is set up specificaly to prevent this anyway. In general, if you do indeed care about the answers you can always check Gmane or the mailing list archives. Regards, Achim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
