Re: cygwin-mketc.sh
--- Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wrong list, redirected. Please remove cygwin-patches from the > distribution in response. I second that (for reasons below). > > I think it should go in the main cygwin package and install as > > /etc/postinstall/cygwin-mketc.sh And I think it should be in its own package, optionally installed. Also it would be able to handle dependencies on software (in this case, ash and ln). Or possibly put in the base-files package. That said, I do like the idea of this. Has it been tested on all the target versions of Windows (especially 95 and NT4 might be different)? __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
Re: cygwin-mketc.sh
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove cygwin-patches from the distribution in response. Paul Johnston wrote: Hi, Windows has direct equivalents of some standard unix files: /etc/hosts, services, protocols, networks. It is helpful to have symbolic links from these files in /etc to the windows equivalents. A few weeks ago we talked about this on the main cygwin list. Some of us came up with this postinstall script, which has been tested and hardened against windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP (not been tested on NT 3.51). Under NT it works with both NTFS and FAT, and it works with strict_case=yes. I think it should go in the main cygwin package and install as /etc/postinstall/cygwin-mketc.sh Paul
Re: cygwin-mketc.sh
I don't know if it's possible to really 'vote' for cygwin-mketc.sh since it's not a package, but I tested it on my Win2000 Pro PC and it worked fine. I like the idea of it and it should help the occasional user that creates /etc/services thinking it's required for inetd... Is John Morrison around? Is there any interest in including this in base-files? Also in looking at the postinstall scripts it might be nice to rename the scripts to be base-files-foo.sh so it's easy to see what package they came from, but this is entirely my personal preference.
RE: cygwin-mketc.sh
> From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:joshuadfranklin@;yahoo.com] > > I don't know if it's possible to really 'vote' for cygwin-mketc.sh > since it's not a package, but I tested it on my Win2000 Pro PC and it > worked fine. I like the idea of it and it should help the occasional > user that creates /etc/services thinking it's required for inetd... > > Is John Morrison around? Is there any interest in including this in > base-files? Hi Joshua - Yes, I'm around :) I'm quite happy to include this in base-files, if people want... > Also in looking at the postinstall scripts it might be nice to rename > the scripts to be base-files-foo.sh so it's easy to see what package > they came from, but this is entirely my personal preference. I've no personal preference, easily done. Only issue I can see is that the rename now will leave orphaned files. J. === Information in this email and any attachments are confidential, and may not be copied or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor disclosed to any third party without our permission. There is no intention to create any legally binding contract or other commitment through the use of this email. Experian Limited (registration number 653331). Registered office: Talbot House, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5HF
