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Re: best way to re-install and keep cygwin configuration


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:
> While I would also tend to just copy off my current Cygwin install and then
> plop it back in when I finished the O/S reinstall, there will be things
> like local user and group accounts in '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' that
> will need updating.  A reinstall of Cygwin avoids some of these little
> clean-up tasks that come from just copying over a previous installation.

Would one be able to re-execute the post install scripts to manage it?

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