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RE: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?
- From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: Brent Epp <brent at pdc dot ca>
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:33:03 +0000
- Subject: RE: Is there a way to clone-install Cygwin?
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- Reply-to: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr at ncbi dot nlm dot nih dot gov>
> Cygwin is totally portable!
I wouldn't be so sure, as some package installation scripts do modify the actual system, which is not contained within the Cygwin installation tree.
But mostly it is indeed portable.
> You can simply copy the installation folder
If you think that didn't occur to me, then please read my original message that said:
> > I want to avoid to dumb-copy the entire C:\cygwin tree from one PC to another
Thank you for your time, though.
Anton
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