On Fri, 15 Mar 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Syrus Nemat-Nasser writes: > Syrus> Thanks everyone for your prompt replies. I will add the DIR_COLORS > Syrus> file to my package this evening. As it now stands, the package will > Syrus> require the user to install the 'eval dircolors' command in the > Syrus> appropriate place in there .login or .profile or whatever (I use > Syrus> tcsh). > > I recommend that you look at the xterm-color package. It uses a mechanism now > offered by dpkg to replace the xterm from xbase in a smart way. IMHO you > should do the same with /bin/ls, /usr/man/man1/ls.1 and simply add > /usr/bin/dircolors, /usr/man/man1/dircolors as they are. > > Syrus> Where can I place a color-ls.README file to assist a user in setting > Syrus> up the package? > > How about /usr/doc/color-ls? Are you aware of the Debian package guidelines? > Available on your debian mirror in /debian/doc/package-developer, in the > doc-debian package and shipped with versions of dpkg.
I've read them, but not recently. This is my first package, and that was a thought that just came to me. Anyway, I will make sure my package conforms to the Guidelines prior to release. [SNIP] > Well, now that it is not what you told us earlier. You first spoke about a > color-ls package --- which, at least in my understanding, would involve two > small binaries, two manpages and maybe some doc in a README and a sample > DIR_COLORS. Yes, at present, I was installing the whole thing to get everything working, but I could create a standalone package called color-ls which will replace ls, and add dircolors and DIR_COLORS and the man pages. However, do you want me to leave the dir and vdir binaries untouched? They would not support color in that case. I'm sure I could taylor this to try to meet everyone's individual wishes, but my plan was to provide a whole fileutils package with color support as the first iteration. > > Nuking fileutils seems like a Bad Idea(TM) to me. What we could do is to > include the color-ls patch directly into the geniune fileutils package. That's exactly what I have done. I used the "genuine" debian 0.93R6 package fileutils-3.12-2 and patched it. Sorry if that was not clear. I haven't Nuked fileutils, and BTW, the debian package only added the control files. Nothing in the GNU fileutils was changed. > Those > who hate color-ls simple don't use > eval 'dircolors' > in their /etc/profile or .profile, those who like it do. Choice to the user. > > Did you talk to the fileutils mainrainer at all? Yes thankyou, and he intends to do just that in the 1.1 release. The present version of color-ls patched fileutils is not inefficient, and the default uses no color unless you run dircolors. Is it such a big deal to upgrade the whole fileutils? It's not a big binary. Syrus. ---------------------------------------------------------- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.
