Corinna or whom it may concern ;)
If/when the 'profile' (name may change) package gets the green
light it will have support for a /etc/skel directory. This
directory (in case you don't already know) holds so called
skeleton files which get copied to a new user's directory.
The copy operation
John Morrison wrote:
There. Quite long and slightly rambly. However, what do
people think; aye or nay? The copy _will_ be done as part
of $HOME creation, default files would be a bonus I believe.
Some of the files I have on my system which I believe could
have defaults...
.bashrc
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
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:52:16PM +0100, 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 think the package is misnamed. Beep.
cgf
From: Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:52:16PM +0100, 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 think the package is misnamed. Beep.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:04:54PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
From: Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:52:16PM +0100, 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 -
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:16:40PM +0100, John Morrison wrote:
sdesc: Base system miscellaneous files
ldesc: This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy, and
several important miscellaneous files
Here's what the description for setup from rpm says:
The setup package contains a set of
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
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Shouldn't there be a dependency on the Cygwin package?
ack :)
requires: cygwin
I don't see any reason for this to require cygwin. There are no programs
there.
There would be no point in downloading this file by itself. Therefore,
a dependency to cygwin
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:59:34PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Shouldn't there be a dependency on the Cygwin package?
ack :)
requires: cygwin
I don't see any reason for this to require cygwin. There are no programs
there.
There would be no point in
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Thanks Earnie, response is welcome :)
John Morrison wrote:
Some of the files I have on my system which I believe could
have defaults...
.xinit Yes - But should be copied only by the
X11 package or perhaps RXVT.
By
John Morrison wrote:
From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Thanks Earnie, response is welcome :)
John Morrison wrote:
Some of the files I have on my system which I believe could
have defaults...
.xinit Yes - But should be copied only by the
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?
sdesc: Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin
ldesc: Core common files needed for
A new ncftp package is now ready for upload:
http://hackdata.com/cygwin/ncftp/ncftp-3.1.4-1.tar.bz2
http://hackdata.com/cygwin/ncftp/ncftp-3.1.4-1-src.tar.bz2
http://hackdata.com/cygwin/ncftp/setup.hint
setup.hint (updated requires)
category: Net
# From the postinstall script:
# sh - ash
# mkdir
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0200, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
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?
sdesc: Core common files needed for correct
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0200, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
What about depending on all the programs called in the scripts like:
# cp, mkdir - fileutils
# hostname, id - sh-utils
# sh - ash
# tr - textutils
requires: ash fileutils sh-utils textutils
Maybe
On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 11:02, Hack Kampbjørn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0200, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
What about depending on all the programs called in the scripts like:
# cp, mkdir - fileutils
# hostname, id - sh-utils
# sh - ash
# tr -
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:02:49PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 11:02, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0200, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
What about depending on all the programs called in the scripts like:
# cp, mkdir -
On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 12:14, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:02:49PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
so it should depend on it - even though the package is there to help
bash.
ash also accesses /etc/profile. So we'd be introducing a circular
dependency. Does every
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:56:38AM +0200, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
A new ncftp package is now ready for upload:
http://hackdata.com/cygwin/ncftp/ncftp-3.1.4-1.tar.bz2
http://hackdata.com/cygwin/ncftp/ncftp-3.1.4-1-src.tar.bz2
http://hackdata.com/cygwin/ncftp/setup.hint
setup.hint (updated requires)
if you create the skel package (as in Linux), no one will be forced to
use it in any way...
Examples are fine. Forcing the user to have them would be a pain,
IMO.
It complicates the install process beyond what is needed. These
files
are for the user to modify there environment to their
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