RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
Andrew, I'm mirroring it right now... nobody else download from the link below. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?) Throw a browser at: http://flognat.myip.org/xbase (ehm cable-modem, so it is not that fast, would apreciate if someone with faster connection could mirror it ;-)) xbase, one package with all the required files.. There are couple of small quirks, but I thought you should throw an eye on it before I fixed those.. ;-) at least it fires up when I start startxwin.bat. A couple of setup questions... * Is it ok to ask the user questions and so on in the postinstall script?? * there are some questions in the xinstall script about manually adding stuff to the termcap database, asks if it should replace some files.. do we need to do anything there? Some of the files are read-only, meaning that overwriting them can't be done, don't know if it is anything to worry about? (It was just me who had problems continuing a aborted installation) I am just mainly exercising :-) Feeling around with the setup and so on, assuming that I would do the version where we took all the tgz-files and made setup.hints for them all, where in the hierarchy should they be put?? cygwin/contrib/xfree/Xbin/setup.hint Xbin/Xbin.tgz Xetc/setup.hint Xetc/Xetc.tgz or cygwin/contrib/Xbin/setup.hint Xbin/Xbin.tgz Xetc/setup.hint Xetc/Xetc.tgz When planning for this, I have the thought of basically, startup-scripts requires Xbin.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xxserv.tgz.. these require startup-scripts (hmm maybe rename to xstartupscripts?) the other packages like Xf100, Xfscl, Xnext.. requires startup-scripts.. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!
RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
Okay, I mirrored the files: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?) Throw a browser at: http://flognat.myip.org/xbase (ehm cable-modem, so it is not that fast, would apreciate if someone with faster connection could mirror it ;-)) xbase, one package with all the required files.. There are couple of small quirks, but I thought you should throw an eye on it before I fixed those.. ;-) at least it fires up when I start startxwin.bat. A couple of setup questions... * Is it ok to ask the user questions and so on in the postinstall script?? * there are some questions in the xinstall script about manually adding stuff to the termcap database, asks if it should replace some files.. do we need to do anything there? Some of the files are read-only, meaning that overwriting them can't be done, don't know if it is anything to worry about? (It was just me who had problems continuing a aborted installation) I am just mainly exercising :-) Feeling around with the setup and so on, assuming that I would do the version where we took all the tgz-files and made setup.hints for them all, where in the hierarchy should they be put?? cygwin/contrib/xfree/Xbin/setup.hint Xbin/Xbin.tgz Xetc/setup.hint Xetc/Xetc.tgz or cygwin/contrib/Xbin/setup.hint Xbin/Xbin.tgz Xetc/setup.hint Xetc/Xetc.tgz When planning for this, I have the thought of basically, startup-scripts requires Xbin.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xxserv.tgz.. these require startup-scripts (hmm maybe rename to xstartupscripts?) the other packages like Xf100, Xfscl, Xnext.. requires startup-scripts.. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!
RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
-Original Message- From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:17 PM | Or, were you planning on keeping the separate .tgz files around too? separate .tgz? I The executable tgz's of the xfree package? I am considering giving it a try using them instead.. small ptoblem might be version numbering, can I put version numbers in the hints file? (the dist tgz files today is automagically built by xfree makefile(?) and therefore I don't want to change their name, to get it as easy as possible) Yes, the version number for a file can be explicitly given, but if your files are non-versioned, you will have mirror site headaches when updates within an Xfree official release are done. Versioning the tarballs takes only a couple of seconds - and can be scripted. Rob
Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:16:31AM +0100, Andrew Markebo wrote: separate .tgz? I The executable tgz's of the xfree package? I am considering giving it a try using them instead.. small ptoblem might be version numbering, can I put version numbers in the hints file? (the dist tgz files today is automagically built by xfree makefile(?) and therefore I don't want to change their name, to get it as easy as possible) We've moved away from non-versioned tar files. We're also moving rapidly away from gzipped tar files. My question was really to Suhaib or Harold. I didn't know if they saw any value in maintaining a separate installation tree using the old method, with tgz files. If they did then we wouldn't be able to abrogate the xfree directory on sourceware. cgf
RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
For now I was just mirroring Andrew's files so that other people could comment on them. I haven't looked at them myself. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?) On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:27:18PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote: Okay, I mirrored the files: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum I'm not clear on whether these (mirrored) files are being formally offered for the cygwin release or not. I assume that these are just for people to play with but that will require a little bit of customization of local setup.ini's if you want to do anything useful. If they are intended for the release then please follow the instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html under Submitting a package. It seems like there were originally some questions that are best dealt with in the cygwin-apps mailing list (cc'ed), where discussion about that kind of stuff is commonplace. I am excited about getting this into the cygwin distribution. I wonder how many people will discover it when it becomes part of the main distro. My inclination is to just add the xfree directory in the ftp area to the list of directories that setup scans for files to install. Then you can create your hierarchy under that. Or, were you planning on keeping the separate .tgz files around too? cgf
Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:27:18PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote: Okay, I mirrored the files: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum I'm not clear on whether these (mirrored) files are being formally offered for the cygwin release or not. I assume that these are just for people to play with but that will require a little bit of customization of local setup.ini's if you want to do anything useful. If they are intended for the release then please follow the instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html under Submitting a package. It seems like there were originally some questions that are best dealt with in the cygwin-apps mailing list (cc'ed), where discussion about that kind of stuff is commonplace. I am excited about getting this into the cygwin distribution. I wonder how many people will discover it when it becomes part of the main distro. My inclination is to just add the xfree directory in the ftp area to the list of directories that setup scans for files to install. Then you can create your hierarchy under that. Or, were you planning on keeping the separate .tgz files around too? cgf
RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?) On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:27:18PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote: Okay, I mirrored the files: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum .. I assume that these are just for people to play with but that will require a little bit of customization of local setup.ini's if you want to do anything useful. Harold... If I can be so bold, can I suggest that you add a setup.ini to the collection of files - just include the setup.hint contents (see http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html for the setup.ini format. This will let folk grab the X install via setup.exe with NO customisation of local files - all they have to do is run setup.exe, click on Add in the mirror screen and put http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase in as the URL. Then setup.exe will merge the main setup.exe and the xbase one into one seamless view. If you are going to have http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase and http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xclient and http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/... (while testing) then put the setup.ini at http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo and include the path in the install: rule. Rob
Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:13:06PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?) On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:27:18PM -0500, Harold Hunt wrote: Okay, I mirrored the files: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2 http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum .. I assume that these are just for people to play with but that will require a little bit of customization of local setup.ini's if you want to do anything useful. Harold... If I can be so bold, can I suggest that you add a setup.ini to the collection of files - just include the setup.hint contents (see http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html for the setup.ini format. I don't see any reason to delay adopting XFree86 into the main setup. So, lets not worry about customizing anything or offering alternate setup.ini's. cgf
