Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/21/13:31:26
--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:04:16PM -0500, James Dumser wrote:
> >On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:05:51 -0700 (PDT), Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> First, my /usr/info/dir file was overwritten. The new file of course
> >> only had binutils. :(. Suggestion for future package releases is to
> >> remove the /usr/info/dir file if it exists before creating the
> >> tarball.
> >
> >Agreed. Any file that is not specific to a given package (only) should
> >not be included in the package tarball.
>
> I've added an "rm usr/info/dir" to my "mknetrel" script. Hopefully other
> contributors will be willing to do this, too.
>
Thanks. Hmm... is the mknetrel released via CVS?
> cygwin.bat is something that comes with cygwin setup however and
> I think it is fair game to be replaced with a potentially newer,
> improved version.
>
I agree.
> Maybe we should add some kind of hook to cygwin.bat so that it will
> run a my_cygwin.bat file if it exists.
>
Sounds like a feasible solution. Also, I would think that a backup copy of any
file replaced should be made. Maybe, DJ does this, don't know. I'm thinking
of any configuration file such as inetd.conf as another poster mentioned.
Regards,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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