Capturing a Cygwin instance from another PC

[Eliot Moss]

On 11/22/2023 4:38 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
> 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.

Not saying it hasn't, but since I don't have a ready answer to your
question I was leaving that to other, more knowledgeable, folks to
jump in and ill the gap :-) ...

EM