Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Igor Peshansky wrote: I'm sure Yaakov meant that he'll patch it when he next gets around to it, but in the meantime felt compelled to explain where the current directory structure came from. --- Why fix it if it isn't broken? It's that way on linux. All of the mkfs extensions and fsck ex

Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: > >> Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it. > > > > That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake > > based. The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as > > well, but none of them are rel

Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:55:07PM -0700, Bryan D. Thomas wrote: >>>Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it. >> >>That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake >>based. The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as >>well, but none of

Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-15 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
>> Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it. > > That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake based. > The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as well, but > none of them are relevant to Cygwin and are not built; the makefiles > c

Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package

2006-04-15 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: I noticed that the util-linux module places several apps in /sbin. This is how the util-linux source package installs them, see also: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=util-linux&version=testing&arch=i386 Also in the package