I included a postinstall script to the package to rename existing /etc/inittab and create a new one.
Sergey Okhapkin Somerset, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 8:42 AM Subject: Re: initscripts package available for review/upload > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:16:51AM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > > http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/initscripts/setup.hint > > http://users.rcn.com/sokhapkin/release/initscripts/initscripts-0.9-1.tar.bz2 > > > > BTW, I just realized that sysvinit and initscripts have a common file - > > /etc/inittab. sysvinit includes a basic one, but initscripts has a full > > featured file. initscripts package has no postinstall script, /etc/inittab > > will be overwritten silently on the package installation. But I need to > > The answer is probably "don't do this". The initscripts package should > only contain skeleton files and/or scripts which create the correct files > on demand of the user. My first OpenSSH packages did overwrite the > config files, too, but that resulted in too much complains. Since then, > unpacking config files in place is considered bad practice for Cygwin. > > At least the postinstall script of the package should rename the old > config file (as *.rpmsave on rpm based installations). > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@;cygwin.com > Red Hat, Inc.