On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:16:40PM +0100, John Morrison wrote: >sdesc: "Base system miscellaneous files" >ldesc: "This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy, and > several important miscellaneous files"
Here's what the description for setup from rpm says: The setup package contains a set of important system configuration and setup files, such as passwd, group, and profile. >Would this be better? > >> > category: base >> Shouldn't there be a dependency on the Cygwin package? > >ack :) > >requires: cygwin I don't see any reason for this to require cygwin. There are no programs there. >Do you think it needs any shells? > >the Deb package consists of: (relevant to Cygwin) > >etc/debian_version Why is debian_version relevant to Cygwin? >etc/host.conf Does cygwin use this? >etc/inputrc >etc/issue >etc/issue.net Does login use the etc/issue* files? >etc/nsswitch.conf >etc/profile > >with a seperate base-passwd which "provides the >master /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, containing >allocated user and group IDs, plus the update-passwd >utility to keep them up to date." > >Note that I'm willing to do this package too :) Sounds like a good idea to me. cgf