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Date:	Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:02:16 -0500
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Subject:	Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails
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On 11/5/2013 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  4 20:18, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> Under the circumstances, configuring inetutils with
>> --libexecdir=/usr/sbin makes the most sense.
>
> Full ACK.  Otherwise you'd have to provide some script which tweaks an
> existing /etc/inetd.conf to use the new paths.  Possible, but hardly
> worth the effort.

That's fine for me, but the other servers, maintained by others [1], 
which may or may not by started by inetd/xinetd would also need to 
configure as --libexecdir=/usr/sbin, or THEY would need to tweak 
configurations.

This seems...counter-intuitive. "cygwin follows the LSB and <the stuff> 
goes in /usr/libexec, except when it's too hard so there is the 
following list of exceptions...."  Is that the policy going forward?

I wasn't planning to auto-update config scripts. I was going to update 
the /etc/default/* scripts [2], and then WARN IN BIG LETTERS in the 
announcement that folks will need to manually merge the changes if 
they've modified their configuration files.  I know nobody will read it, 
but when the inevitable queries reach the mailing list I'll be able to 
point to the ANNOUNCE post.

[1] rsh-server, tftp-server, etc.

[2] this is WHY we have an /etc/default/ area after all -- to provide 
updates when configurations OUGHT to change, but without clobbering a 
user's customizations.  The downside, even on GNU/Linux, is that the 
user must manually merge.  Fedora provides tools to help do this, but it 
is still a manual process.

--
Chuck


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