On 10/7/2013 1:32 PM, J.-C. Mignot wrote:
Hi ! I have a cygwin working fine on windows XP. I'm moving to windows 7. Is there a way to copy the configuration of the cygwin that works well to windows 7 without using the wysiwyg setup.exe ? I mean something like a single configuration file ?
No, there is no single configuration file for Cygwin that will make your Cygwin installation on Windows 7 mirror your Windows XP install. Short of copying the entire install from XP to Windows, you'll likely miss something if you go for something less. And even then, there will still be some bits that you may want that you'll have to do by hand (setting up shortcuts to shells, etc.) If just getting the same packages installed on Windows 7 is close enough, you can always just copy '/etc/setup/installed.db' into place on the W7 machine and run the normal 'setup*.exe' to get things installed. That will still miss your local directory and customizations that are in it plus those that may be in '/etc' but those probably become obvious quickly. Assuming your XP machine is still available, you can grab them as you notice. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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