Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
content-class:	urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	RE: Upgraded man command
Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:52:37 -0500
Message-ID:	<BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E90BD46@ex02.svr.idirect.net>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
From:	"Harig, Mark" <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
X-IsSubscribed:	yes
X-MIME-Autoconverted:	from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id iAOI8vO1012480

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:37 PM
> Subject: RE: Upgraded man command
> 
> Sure, but that'll only work if base-files is 
> reinstalled/upgraded at the
> same time as the man package.  If we want the man package to be
> self-contained, we should add the same logic that's in
> /etc/preremove/base-files.sh to /etc/preremove/man.sh.

I submitted a bug report (#571).  It mentions the possible
(unintentional) dependency.

> 
> Incidentally, the code that looks through the manifest file 
> and does the
> comparisons can be factored out to something like
> /etc/preremove/remove-defaults.sh, and then invoked from both 
> man.sh and
> base-files.sh as "/etc/preremove/remove-defaults.sh
> /etc/preremove/man-manifest.lst" or "/etc/preremove/remove-defaults.sh
> /etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst", respectively.  
> Unless we ever get
> a package called "remove-defaults", this should be safe to 
> do.  The actual
> script can be part of the base-files package (once setup is 
> changed to run
> all preremove scripts first, before removing package contents).

The creation of /etc/preremove/man-manifest.lst and factoring out
common code sounds like a good idea to me.  Please feel free to
add this suggestion to Bug #571, if you want, or to create a new
report.

---

--
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/

- Raw text -