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Re: setup - duplicating cygwin
- From: Jim Easton <jim at cs dot ualberta dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Jim Easton <jim at cs dot ualberta dot ca>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 01:15:49 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: setup - duplicating cygwin
Hi Igor
> > 1) using windows read "installed.db" into "my documents"
> > 2) the version numbers were already set to zero.
>
> Whup. Stop right here. When you say "the version numbers were already
> set to zero", you don't mean those extra zeroes at the end of each line,
> do you? Because if you do, that field has nothing to do with version
> numbers. Setup extracts the version number from the name of the tarball
> in the first field (notice, I said "replace them by '0.0-0'", not "replace
> them by '0'"). If you actually edit the filenames in the first field of
> installed.db and repeat what you've tried, it should work.
Gaaah!! Gee it's bright in here - now. I feel pretty stupid.
My excuse is I'm getting old and my brain is turning to mush. :-)
Thank you.
Tell me; In case things go wrong, to recover my present configuration
is it sufficient to simply restore /cygdrive/c/cygwin and
/cygdrive/c/cygwin.disk or is there something more subtle going on.
For example:
If I cd into cygwin that has been made by setup I get:
$ cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin
$ ls
Thumbs.db cygdrive cygwin.ico home proc tmp var
bin cygwin.bat etc lib sbin usr
$
Whereas the tarred/untarred version of cygwin is:
$ cd /cygdrive/h/cygwin
$ ls
Thumbs.db bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib sbin tmp usr var
$
cygdrive and proc are missing. I take it there is no proc or
cygdrive directories. I also found I have to use tar for this, if
you try to use windows it messes up pointers and, for all I know,
other things.
Thanks again.
Jim
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