X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A3D5CA7.7070903@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:03:19 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh References: <4A3D44B3.90401@aim.com> In-Reply-To: <4A3D44B3.90401@aim.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mark Harig wrote: > Is the 'rxvt' package responsible for creating these > missing directories? Well, *I* think they ought to be created by the X system. Currently, you kinda get them by default IF you install any of the X-related packages, because unlike rxvt, those other package directly incorporate, eg. /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm so when the xterm-242-1.tar.bz2 package is unpacked: viola! you have /etc/X11/app-defaults/ But, none of those packages SHOULD be doing it that way. They SHOULD be doing it the rxvt way, where the "default defaults" are installed into /etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/ and a postinstall script copies the file from there into /etc/X11/app-defaults/ if and only if the current copy has not been changed from the previous /etc/default/ version. (That is, *preserve user customizations*). None of the other packages do that. That having been said...rxvt is stealing a march by assuming /etc/X11/app-defaults/ exists. It's not clear -- if all the other packages did it the "rxvt way" -- WHO exactly should be responsible for creating the directory. I'll enhance the rxvt postinstall script to handle that in a future release. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple