RE: base-files request

2004-06-22 Thread John Morrison
I've just been reading what Debian does with it's base-files, it includes several license texts. Would it be useful for Cygwin to do that too? Then we could just point folks to their own machine :) If we did, is GPL the only license? J.

RE: base-files request

2004-06-22 Thread Morrison, John
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, John Morrison wrote: >>> From: Igor Pechtchanski >> done < base-files-manifest.lst > ^^^ > Shouldn't this be "/etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst"? humm, prob, I didn't know where the script was run from, but a full pa

RE: base-files request

2004-06-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, John Morrison wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Another thing that was talked about was checking whether /etc/profile was > > edited and updating it if it wasn't (same probably goes for other > > /etc/defaults scripts). One way to do this is to compare /etc/profile > >

RE: base-files request

2004-06-21 Thread John Morrison
> From: Igor Pechtchanski > > John, > > Would it be possible to add the base-files package version to the header > comment of all the scripts in base-files? It would then be apparent which > version of the base-files package each script came from. Good idea :) > Another thing that was talked abo