Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-29 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/22/07, Samuel Thibault wrote: Dave Korn, le Mon 23 Apr 2007 02:43:41 +0100, a écrit : > Or you could follow the model of the ioperm package, which requires you to > manually run "ioperm -i" to install the .sys file. > Brian Dessent, le Sun 22 Apr 2007 18:44:50 -0700, a écrit : > I think i

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Korn, le Mon 23 Apr 2007 02:43:41 +0100, a écrit : > Or you could follow the model of the ioperm package, which requires you to > manually run "ioperm -i" to install the .sys file. > Brian Dessent, le Sun 22 Apr 2007 18:44:50 -0700, a écrit : > I think it would be very bad to install a (ker

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes of course (I actually call the uninstallation script at preremove). > But the question is "do we dare installing a driver just because the > user asked for package installation?". > > The problem is that libusb-win32 might be pulled as a dependency of > another packag

RE: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 April 2007 02:33, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes of course (I actually call the uninstallation script at preremove). > But the question is "do we dare installing a driver just because the > user asked for package installation?". > > The problem is that libusb-win32 might be pulled as a depend

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Sun 22 Apr 2007 21:25:50 -0400, a écrit : > The final decision is, of course, yours but I would say that if it's > really just an installation step, there's nothing technically stopping > you from performing the step automatically through a postinstall script, > for exa

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Sun 22 Apr 2007 11:14:07 -0400, a écrit : >> A good reason for this division is to allow for user input during the >> configuration step, which "setup.exe" doesn't have support for. > > It doesn't need user input. > >> If running your libu

RE: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 23 April 2007 00:16, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > On 4/22/07, Samuel Thibault wrote: On 22 April 2007 14:49, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > On 4/22/07, Brian Dessent wrote: On 22 April 2007 15:45, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > On 4/22/07, Samuel Thibault ens-lyon.org> wrote: :-) Thank you Morgan!

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/22/07, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Sun 22 Apr 2007 11:14:07 -0400, a écrit : > A good reason for this division is to allow for user input during the > configuration step, which "setup.exe" doesn't have support for. It doesn't need user input. > If running your libu

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Installing my libusb-win32 package doesn't automatically install the USB > driver, the user has to run /usr/sbin/libusb-install. I preferred to go > this way for safety. > > However, some user reported that it would be better that the > installation is automatica

libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Installing my libusb-win32 package doesn't automatically install the USB driver, the user has to run /usr/sbin/libusb-install. I preferred to go this way for safety. However, some user reported that it would be better that the installation is automatically performed (since if one installs li

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Sun 22 Apr 2007 11:14:07 -0400, a écrit : > A good reason for this division is to allow for user input during the > configuration step, which "setup.exe" doesn't have support for. It doesn't need user input. > If running your libusb-install is more like a configuratio

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Morgan Gangwere, le Sun 22 Apr 2007 08:44:55 -0600, a écrit : > On 4/22/07, Samuel Thibault ens-lyon.org> wrote: > >Installing my libusb-win32 package doesn't automatically install the USB > >driver, the user has to run /usr/sbin/libusb-install. I preferred to go > >this way for safety. > > >

Re: libusb-win32 auto-install?

2007-04-22 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 4/22/07, Samuel Thibault ens-lyon.org> wrote: Hi, Installing my libusb-win32 package doesn't automatically install the USB driver, the user has to run /usr/sbin/libusb-install. I preferred to go this way for safety. However, some user reported that it would be better that the installation i