Re: [Fink-devel] Fink here Document Delimiter

2003-01-16 Thread Dustin Sias
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Dustin Sias wrote: Here is an example. this change would make it easy to change user, group, startup scripts, etc.. I like the /Library/StartupItems method. I would also like the package to create, update, delete user, group information. This is mo

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink here Document Delimiter

2003-01-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On the ranlab issue, this came up in one of my packages as well, and my solution was to test for the presence of ranlib before invoking it. The idea is, any user without the Developer Tools installed won't be linking against this library anyway, so it is harmless that ranlib was not run for them.

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink here Document Delimiter

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Dustin Sias wrote: Here is an example. this change would make it easy to change user, group, startup scripts, etc.. I like the /Library/StartupItems method. I would also like the package to create, update, delete user, group information. This is m

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink here Document Delimiter

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
It is relatively rare that such scripts are needed. Can you show an example where it would be useful? btw, i noticed that you use ranlib in the uw-imapd-c PostInstScript. I dont think that will work, since the PostInstScript is ran by users who install from binary who may not have the developer