On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Chris Olin <ch...@chrisolin.com> wrote: > I recently did this at work by backing up the C:\cygwin directory, my > Windows user profile directory and manually creating the directory > path C:\cygwin\etc\setup, then copying > C:\cygwin\etc\setup\installed.db to the new computer, running the > installer, and changing the install method from "Default" to > "Reinstall". Because my previous installed.db file is where the > installer would be looking for it, it thinks that all of the packages > I had installed are installed, so switching the install method to > reinstall, everything is reinstalled.
That's a nice trick! Thank you! > I pass 'winsymlinks' to the CYGWIN environment variable and create a > symlink from /cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/Chris Olin to > /home/colin and update /etc/passwd to point to the new home directory. > After recreating this symlink, it was just a matter of manually > copying over configuration files and directories back into my home > directory. I follow a different approach: I have a cygwin-home under my Windows home directory and have created a symlink pointing from /home/rklemme to that directory. Advantage: all backups from my Windows home also include cygwin settings and I need to only update that single symlink if I throw away my cygwin installation and reinstall. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
