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Re: Installed 1.5.5, need to back off to 1.3.22


On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:12PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>At 12:31 AM 10/10/2003, Christopher Faylor you wrote:
>>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:40:20PM -0700, David M. Karr wrote:
>>>Is there any way of "copying" a 1.3.22 distribution from one box to another
>>>box?  I know it's not that simple, but is there a list of straightforward
>>>places I'd have to patch to make it work (like registry changes)?
>>
>>It is incredibly simple.  Just copy the c:\cygwin directory tree.
>>Use "mount -m" to dump the commands to duplicate your mount table
>>layout to a .bat file and then run the .bat file on the other
>>system to recreate your mount table.
>
>
>Right.  Or if one prefers an opaque process, run setup, choose install 
>from a local directory and point it to the local package directory cache 
>on the other machine.  
>
>I can't believe I'm telling someone how to *not* fix a bug! ;-)

Yeah, me too.  But I had to rise to the challenge of the "it's not that
simple".

cgf

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