Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!

> I tried to write an installer.bat which uses the Windows bsdtar, but it
> fails with:



> C:\>dir
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is EC42-8D26

>  Directory of C:\

> 31 Jan 2020  12:45        84.340.162 cygwin64.tgz
> 31 Jan 2020  14:38        91.960.715 cygwin64.zip
> 31 Jan 2020  12:45                45 cygwin64_addons.tgz
> 19 Mar 2019  05:52    <DIR>          PerfLogs
> 13 Jan 2020  13:12    <DIR>          Program Files
> 15 Jan 2020  17:32    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
> 13 Jan 2020  13:12    <DIR>          Users
> 13 Jan 2020  14:46    <DIR>          Windows
> 31 Jan 2020  13:59    <DIR>          xx
> 31 Jan 2020  14:43        91.960.889 xxx_20200131_144048.zip
>                4 File(s)    268.261.811 bytes
>                6 Dir(s)  45.442.043.904 bytes free

> C:\>tar -xf cygwin64.zip
> cygwin64/bin/apropos: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\apropos'
> cygwin64/bin/awk: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\awk'
> cygwin64/bin/bzcmp: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzcmp'
> cygwin64/bin/bzegrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzegrep'
> cygwin64/bin/bzfgrep: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzfgrep'
> cygwin64/bin/bzless: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\bzless'
> cygwin64/bin/captoinfo: Can't create '\\\\?\\C:\\\\cygwin64\\bin\\captoinfo'
> ^C
> C:\>

> (I run it as administrator).

> Any idea what went wrong

Wrong is precisely the way you are trying to "install" it.

> and how I can fix it?

Use supported ways to install Cygwin.
Even if you would successfully unpack your clone, on a different system, you
would still need to run full rebase. It's way easier to just script setup.exe
to install what you need.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, February 1, 2020 12:53:20

Sorry for my terrible english...


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