Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Recovering /etc/setup/installed.db From: fergus Reply-To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net In-Reply-To: References: <1113162900.2464.5.camel@82-40-123-11.cable.ubr01.pert.blueyonder.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1113167437.2378.4.camel@82-40-123-11.cable.ubr01.pert.blueyonder.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:10:41 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Apr 2005 21:11:20.0975 (UTC) FILETIME=[D808D1F0:01C53E11] > The easiest way, however, is to look at the setup.log file > from your "polished" installation (if that's available). Thank you. After grep "\.bz2" /var/etc/setup* followed by combinations of sort, uniq and simple editing, I have recovered /etc/setup/installed.db correct in every detail, as far as I can tell. Thanks so much. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/