Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?

BGINFO4X bginfo4x@kztsoftware.com
Sat Feb 1 11:21:00 GMT 2020


Hello,

What about something like this?

https://vegardit.github.io/cygwin-portable-installer/

Can it help u?

Regards.



Missatge de Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> del dia ds., 1 de febr. 2020
a les 11:05:

> 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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