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Subject: RE: Upgraded man command
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:12:38 -0500
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> From: Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Upgraded man command
> 
> This seems like a good candidate for bugzilla:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin
> 
> The component for the bug would be "Cygwin Applications".
> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:06 PM
> Subject: RE: Upgraded man command
> 
> There's always the solution that base-files uses for replacing various
> config files -- it checks whether the file is the same as the 
> default in
> the preremove script, and erases it if so.  Then the 
> postinstall script
> copies the new default, and the config file is up-to-date.  This won't
> work if the users edited their config files, but should work in most
> cases.

OK.  I will submit a bug report suggesting that 
/etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst be updated
to include /usr/share/misc/man.conf.

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