replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Jerome Fong wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:03:22PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
>>> On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong  wrote:
>>>> Hi There,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin
>>>> installation so I can replicate it on a different machine.  The idea 
>>>> is,
>>>> I have scripts and programs developed and tested on my cygwin install.
>>>> I want to be able to deploy everything that I am running on my machine.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if the setup.exe will get me what I want since older
>>>> versions of packages are not always readily available (dependent on the
>>>> server).  Also, I want to be able to provide the operations team with a
>>>> zip file or some kind of installation package to replicate on each
>>>> server.   The idea is to avoid  new downloads and use what I have until
>>>> I need to upgrade.
>>> Assuming you use the same drive letters and directory structure, you
>>> can just zip up your cygwin data (preferably with something that can
>>> maintain file permissions) and dump HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus
>>
>> I would not suggest using "zip" as the mechanism for backing up and
>> restoring.  As has been noted 10497 times in this mailing list Windows
>> ZIP does not properly save the bits needed to recreate things like
>> symlinks.
>>
>> And, we've also mentioned at least as many times that you DO NOT 
>> MANIPULATE
>> THE REGISTRY DIRECTLY.  Use "mount -m" to create a .bat file suitable for
>> recreating the mount table.
>>
>> So, the proper way to do this is to copy cygwin1.dll, tar.exe, mount.exe
>> to the other computer, in a temporary directory.  Run the .bat file
>> created by mount -m to recreate the mount table and use tar.exe to
>> extract the tar ball created.
 > Sorry, I'm not sure what am I suppose to tar up?
 >

How about the same stuff that you were suggested zipping up?

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