Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-apps-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#faqs>
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 18:05:13 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: upset2 improvement for automatic /usr/info/dir generation
Message-ID: <20020331230513.GC27053@redhat.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA76008ABEE AT itdomain003 DOT itdomain DOT net DOT au> <20020331224233 DOT GA27053 AT redhat DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20020331224233.GA27053@redhat.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 05:42:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:48:32AM +1000, Robert Collins (as predicted) wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com] 
>>> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 7:25 AM
>>
>>>Anyway, I'll be implementing this in the next couple of days.  This is
>>>just a heads up.  This means that special "generate info file" logic
>>>can safely be removed from setup, I think.
>>
>>There isn't any in setup right now :}.  I like the regex approach, I
>>don't like the triggered download of this package.
>
>I meant special logic that people had added to their own packages,
>obviously.
>
>>IMO it would be better to spit the dummy and reject the package if it
>>doesn't have some other well-known file (ie if it has any .info file,
>>it ust have a /etc/setup/postinstall/foo.sh that includes a call to
>>install-info)
>
>Or are you saying that it is safe to assume that the existence of an
>install-info means that the .info files are being generated?  I can't
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
 postinstall file

Geez.  I have to start reading my email more closely.

cgf