Andrew, I'm mirroring it right now... nobody else download from the link below.
Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?) > > > Throw a browser at: > http://flognat.myip.org/xbase > (ehm cable-modem, so it is not that fast, would > apreciate if someone with faster connection could mirror it ;-)) > > xbase, one package with all the required files.. > > There are couple of small quirks, but I thought you should throw an > eye on it before I fixed those.. ;-) at least it fires up when I start > startxwin.bat. > > A couple of setup questions... > > * Is it ok to ask the user questions and so on in the postinstall > script?? > > * there are some questions in the xinstall script about manually > adding stuff to the termcap database, asks if it should replace some > files.. do we need to do anything there? > > Some of the files are read-only, meaning that overwriting them can't > be done, don't know if it is anything to worry about? (It was just me > who had problems continuing a aborted installation) > > I am just mainly exercising :-) Feeling around with the setup and so > on, assuming that I would do the version where we took all the > tgz-files and made setup.hints for them all, where in the hierarchy > should they be put?? > > cygwin/contrib/xfree/Xbin/setup.hint > Xbin/Xbin.tgz > Xetc/setup.hint > Xetc/Xetc.tgz > or > > cygwin/contrib/Xbin/setup.hint > Xbin/Xbin.tgz > Xetc/setup.hint > Xetc/Xetc.tgz > > When planning for this, I have the thought of basically, > startup-scripts requires Xbin.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xfenc.tgz > Xfnts.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz > Xxserv.tgz.. these require startup-scripts (hmm maybe rename to > xstartupscripts?) > > the other packages like Xf100, Xfscl, Xnext.. requires > startup-scripts.. > > /Andy > > -- > The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty! >