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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:03:21 +0100
From: Chris Taylor <chris@equate.dyndns.org>
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Subject: Re: Best place to put new envvars?
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Matthew O. Persico wrote:
> I am sharing a Cygwin installation in a NetWare drive among a number of developers.
> 
> I want to put
> 
> export CVSROOT=:pserver:${USER}@ourbox.com:/home/cvs/repository
> 
> in one profile that is run by everyone AND I don't want it overwritten if I update Cygwin.
> 
> Where's the best place to stash this?
> 
> Thanks
> 

I'm reasonably sure (though I could be wrong) that /etc/profile isn't
overwritten through package updates - it's copied the first time you
install.. But afaik that's it..

Chris


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