Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:05:49 +0000 From: John Marshall To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up Message-ID: <20011115100549.A1695@kahikatea.pohutukawa.gen.nz> References: <5314439342.20011114212805@familiehaase.de> <3BF2D797.B0481987@ece.gatech.edu> <20011114211942.GB9636@redhat.com> <1119104841.20011114224550@familiehaase.de> <3BF2F6AD.726DB93E@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BF2F6AD.726DB93E@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0500 On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > My point was that the off-site versions should install into /usr/local > (or /opt/ or whatever, just *NOT* /usr). When you're ready to > contribute them to the main dist, THEN (and only then) rebuild them to > install into /usr and upload (to sourceware) as a test release. Er, can you say why? Over in RPM land, I have users telling me that they want the /usr v /usr/local decision to be determined by whether something is package managed (and thus uninstallable via rpm/setup), rather than by whether it happens to come from the vendor. So I get flamed for producing a .rpm that installs to /usr/local, and am probably going to change to /usr because I think they're right. Many of my dumb users want to run Cygwin programs from a DOS window. So if I installed to /usr/local I would need to tell them to add two directories (C:\Cygwin\bin & C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin) to their Windows PATH instead of one, increasing the scope for screwups. Currently I produce a package for Cygwin setup.exe that installs to /usr, and I'm about to start getting flamed for that too? :-) Having off-site packages install to /usr/local on Cygwin would certainly show whether they were official or not (cf rpm -qi), but that information is already pretty much available in /etc/setup/installed.db if off-site people deliver their package tarballs to setup in a directory other than "latest" or "contrib". John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/