Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:12:04PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >> I think that for maximum immediate gain, it is worth considering >> this: Patch generic-build-script and mknetrel to detect certain files >> (/usr/info/*.info and /etc/defaults/*) in a package, and add a >>

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:16:20AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >"John Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of >> December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages >> have postinstall scripts which just copy default ve

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:12:04PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >I think that for maximum immediate gain, it is worth considering this: >Patch generic-build-script and mknetrel to detect certain files >(/usr/info/*.info and /etc/defaults/*) in a package, and add a postinstall >script if found. Note th

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Max Bowsher
>> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> That >>> is basically asking 27 package maintainers to change the way they do >>> things rather than just changing setup.exe. No - the boilerplate Cygwin packaging script is quite popular. Admittedly, I'd forgotten that mknetrel would need similar automagic. > Ro

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
"John Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of > December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages > have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of > configuration files into the correct location if they don't

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:49:52PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > That >> is basically asking 27 package maintainers to change the way they do >> things rather than just changing setup.exe. > >Did I miss something? I didn't think setup.exe

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:07, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > That > is basically asking 27 package maintainers to change the way they do > things rather than just changing setup.exe. Did I miss something? I didn't think setup.exe needed to change in either case? Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:36:17PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: >John Morrison wrote: >>Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of >>December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages have >>postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of configuration >>files in

Re: Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-05 Thread Max Bowsher
John Morrison wrote: > Hi All, > > Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of > December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages > have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of > configuration files into the correct location if they don't > already ex

Setup of default configuration files

2003-01-05 Thread John Morrison
Hi All, Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of configuration files into the correct location if they don't already exist. It was thought that this cou