X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: rxvt-20050409-9 or (less likely) new X clobbered my app-defaults/Rxvt From: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:13:50 +0000 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at nougat.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id n0JGEBr1029881 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I updated my cygwin installation, and lost my personal settings in app-defaults/Rxvt (now relocated). I presume this is a side effect of the 'addition' of some backgroundPixmap stuff to that file, per the description of rxvt-20050409-9 2008-11-15 in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-20050409.README If I'm right that this change overwrites, without backing up, the whole app-defaults/Rxvt file, that's. . .unhelpful. Looking at the preremove and postinstall scripts, it looks like this might have been inadvertent, in that the postinstall script installs the default in /etc/X11/app-defaults only if there is nothing there already (correct), _but_ the preremove script in fact removes /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt (incorrect)! Many thanks to Chuck Wilson for maintaining this package, but in future, please try harder not to trash config files without saving a backup. . . ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJdKa+kjnJixAXWBoRAjuxAJsF77j13N7pN3HZomPWz/l2pqwbJwCbBYvA 1NgRNQ7va8dU1CLtCcb+rSE= =Lt2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/