Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 cgf and/or Corinna, could I get your official opinion on these, so that I can proceed with the necessary changes to cygport trunk if agreed: This one gets into the legal category: As for license files, do we really need to install hundreds of

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:39:35PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 cgf and/or Corinna, could I get your official opinion on these, so that I can proceed with the necessary changes to cygport trunk if agreed: This one gets into the legal

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: My linux systems have a bunch of LICENSE* files in /usr/share/doc. I think it is safer to leave them there, even though no one ever reads them. Fine. What about the docdir change? Yaakov -BEGIN PGP

[RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 A few ideas about package documentation for 1.7: 1) Info pages Per a recent discussion on the main list, GNU info 'dir' will be managed solely by _update-info-dir. Packagers should no longer use postinstall scripts for this purpose; the next

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 8/15/2008 1:43 AM: As for license files, do we really need to install hundreds of copies of the same license? IANAL, so does a symlink to the copy in base-files suffice, or is the mere presence of the latter

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-15 Thread Reini Urban
Eric Blake schrieb: According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 8/15/2008 1:43 AM: As for license files, do we really need to install hundreds of copies of the same license? IANAL, so does a symlink to the copy in base-files suffice, or is the mere presence of the latter enough? I would prefer the

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:17:28PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: Eric Blake schrieb: According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 8/15/2008 1:43 AM: As for license files, do we really need to install hundreds of copies of the same license? IANAL, so does a symlink to the copy in base-files suffice, or

Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation

2008-08-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Reini Urban wrote: But for the README I'd prefer the version. Dummy users might have troubles finding out the installed version. Hardly anyone knows about /etc/setup/installed.db cygcheck -cd foo I would also like a generated .lst MANIFEST file for the binary packages in the public setup