Running Cygwin's "setup.exe" on a new computer

2015-09-01 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, 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

Re: Running Cygwin's "setup.exe" on a new computer

2015-09-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 01/09/2015 14:50, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, 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 au

Re: Running Cygwin's "setup.exe" on a new computer

2015-09-02 Thread Achim Gratz
> 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

Re: Running Cygwin's "setup.exe" on a new computer

2015-09-02 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Marco, On Tuesday, 2015-09-01 15:57:03 +0200, you wrote: > ... > $ cygcheck -cd | awk 'BEGIN{printf("setup-x86_64.exe ")} {if (NR>2) { > printf ("-P " $1 " ") }} END { printf ("\r\n pause ")}' > > cyg-install-x86_64.bat Even if I slightly compress the command line created that way by using a

Re: Running Cygwin's "setup.exe" on a new computer

2015-09-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 02/09/2015 12:53, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Marco, On Tuesday, 2015-09-01 15:57:03 +0200, you wrote: ... $ cygcheck -cd | awk 'BEGIN{printf("setup-x86_64.exe ")} {if (NR>2) { printf ("-P " $1 " ") }} END { printf ("\r\n pause ")}' > cyg-install-x86_64.bat Even if I slightly compress the co

Re: Running Cygwin's "setup.exe" on a new computer

2015-09-03 Thread Warren Young
On Sep 2, 2015, at 6:06 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > My W7 64bit had no complain for 23004 byte line It should go to 32 kB: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3205027/maximum-length-of-command-line-string -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http: