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 From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: Subject: RE: SUGGESTION wrt preremove / postinstall / preinstall (RE: [FAQ]Packages reported as "Incomplete" by "cygcheck -c") Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:55:51 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1064192432.24990.27.camel@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > From: Robert Collins > > In general, setup needs to be taught about classes of files: > configuration files vs image files vs data and script files. > > Once that general concept is in place, we can: > * support rpm and dpkg formats more effectively > * add classes for things like apache > * be smarter about rebasing > > etc etc etc I'm sure this is the way to go... I'm not that intimate with the details of how setup works. My idea was based on a wish to "clean up" - for the moment. I didn't expect it to become a "long time solution" :-) /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59°16.37'N, 17°12.60'E -- UTC+01, DST -> UTC+02 -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/