Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

[Jose Isaias Cabrera]

On Wednesday, November 22, 2023 11:15 AM, Eliot Moss expressed:
>
> On 11/22/2023 10:43 AM, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
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> >> desktop. No Cygwin nor Cygwin-X folders were created on the Start menu. The
> >> original cygwin from the Win10 PC had X installed also.
> >>
> >
> > I don't think "Install from Local Directory" means "reproduce same cygwin
> > installation on a separate computer".
>
> In fact, it means to install using the package files in some local directory,
> i.e., "assume the packages are already downloaded".
>
> It would be reasonable to copy over downloaded packages.
>
> I believe there are commands / techniques that would then make it fairly
> easy to install that specific set of packages "from scratch" (but from
> the local copy of the packages).  Copying *installed* file hierarchies
> is trickier because of permission / ownership concerns.

Thanks, Eliot. Hmmm... I would have thought that by now this process would have been thought of.