John Morrison wrote: > > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > John Morrison wrote: > > > > > > There's now a 1.0-2. Added a little more functionality and > > > lots more comments. > > > > > > I've not recieved much feedback wrt this. Come on folks - > > > what do you think? > > > > I haven't looked at the package but > > > > > sdesc: "Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin" > > > ldesc: "Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin" > > > > I don't believe this to be the correct description of the package. > > Rob supplied the descriptions, I'm sure cygwin will operate without > profile, but would just "Core common files" be sufficient? > > Debian's description (slightly altered) is: > > sdesc: "Base system miscellaneous files" > ldesc: "This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy, and > several important miscellaneous files" > > Would this be better? >
No, more like: sdesc: "Default environment initialization scripts" ldesc: "This package contains the default environment initialization scripts for the Cygwin logon process. It also contains skeleton scripts in /etc/skel and other example scripts that you could create in your HOME directory in /usr/doc/Cygwin/examples/." > > > category: base > > Shouldn't there be a dependency on the Cygwin package? > > ack :) > > requires: cygwin > > Do you think it needs any shells? > > the Deb package consists of: (relevant to Cygwin) > > etc/debian_version > etc/host.conf > etc/inputrc > etc/issue > etc/issue.net > 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 :) > I don't understand this. I thought that this "profile package" would do that. It must create the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files if setup isn't going to. Earnie. BTW, I like initscripts for the package name.