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I don't have X installed, so I thought I'd give it a try. But the site
that was posted didn't have any actual packages, just the setup.ini and
setup.hint files, so the install failed.
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:22:52PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Yes, please post the setup.hint files that you used.
Check out http://www.znark.com/cygwin/. It doesn't include the archive
files; my web account doesn't have the bandwidth or quota for them. To
generate
I can do this -- but what was the outcome of the package name argument?
Was it xfree-foo-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 or xfree86-... or XFree86-...?
I'll need to modify the znark script accordingly.
--Chuck
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:22:52PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
Harold Hunt wrote:
That sounds fine.
Can I also request that you use a seperate variable for the server version
number? I'd ask that because the server will tend to get updated often
while most of the other packages will never be updated.
I'm really looking forward to these packages
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAICT, both Red Hat and Debian allow upper/lower case, so there's no
reason for us to restrict things.
All Debian packages are lower case, of course. TAB completion is a
silly argument against using mixed case, but I just couldn't imagine
anyone
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:27:14PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
Ian, Chris wants the setup hint files IN the mailing list archive
permanently. Not sitting on an external, subject-to-change website.
I've pasted them here.
These look ok except the version: field is a no-op in setup.hint and
Setup is case insensitive to package names. I don't see any technical
issue either way.
Rob
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Setup is case insensitive to package names. I don't see any technical
issue either way.
Me neither, I only see a social issue: it's just plain irritating for
people?
tar xjf releases/mysTABTAB beep ^U
tar xjf releases/MyTABTAB beep ^U
etc,
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Subject: Re: xfree packages
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:40:46PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
I finished making some xfree packages. They are distributed binary
archives repackaged as cygwin packages. I made a package directory that
can be used with setup.exe from a local directory and over
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Subject: Re: xfree packages
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:40:46PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
I finished making some xfree packages. They are distributed binary
archives repackaged as cygwin packages. I made a package directory that
can be used
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:27:14PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
Ian, Chris wants the setup hint files IN the mailing list archive
permanently. Not sitting on an external, subject-to-change website.
Right. This is part of the process for getting a package into the cygwin
package distribution.
Harold Hunt wrote:
Yes, we try to keep things regularized around here, so XFree86 is the way
that the package names need to be spelled.
Also, I request that you keep the XFree86-xserv package, as that will allow
us to realize the immediate benefit of being able to release the Test-**
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Setup is case insensitive to package names. I don't see any technical
issue either way.
Me neither, I only see a social issue: it's just plain irritating for
people?
tar xjf
At 08:29 PM 4/10/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Setup is case insensitive to package names. I don't see any technical
issue either way.
Me neither, I only see a social issue:
I finished making some xfree packages. They are distributed binary
archives repackaged as cygwin packages. I made a package directory that
can be used with setup.exe from a local directory and over the network.
I changed my mind about the division of the packages I proposed. I got
rid
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:40:46PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
I finished making some xfree packages. They are distributed binary
archives repackaged as cygwin packages. I made a package directory that
can be used with setup.exe from a local directory and over the network.
I changed my mind
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