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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>,
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Subject: Re: Setup Log Directories
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:39:57 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
> > >
> > > Are you just saying that '/' may not be the appropriate place?  If
so,
> > I'd
> > > vote for /var/log/setup/.
> >
> > See my recent reply to 'for the brave' :].
>
> I think the reason for dropping the log files in the setup.exe
directory for
> downloads is that there may not be any cygwin directories if you are
> downloading in a system that doesn't have any cygwin binaries
installed.  In
> that case, the download base directory would probably be appropriate.
I can
> dig around and see what is needed to make that visible when the log
files
> are written.

I corrected it last night to go to the download base directory for the
cases where it had been going to the setup.exe location. There are two
reasons not to go to the setup.exe location.
1) What if that's in a internet temp directory? Urrgh.
2) What if it's on a CD-ROM?

> Perhaps instead of depending on the operation being performed, a check
for
> /var/log/ should control which site is written to.  If /var/log/ isn't
> present, then write in the download base directory.

Well, for source downloads, the network admin might want to see whats
been downloaded - regardless of machine. So download only should go to
the download root (as it does now).
But for an install, that should be specific to the machine...

Rob