Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Mark Harig wrote: > 1. > 2. > 3. Sure, all those things would be great, and given the limited time the few volunteers have to address such things it'd be great to satisfy that checklist. But if we had to meet some zero-defect six-sigma policy, cygwin would have about four packages total. We'l

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
That having been said...rxvt is stealing a march by assuming /etc/X11/app-defaults/ exists. It's not clear -- if all the other packages did it the "rxvt way" -- WHO exactly should be responsible for creating the directory. 1. 'rxvt' is advertised as being available without X, so it ca

Re: Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Mark Harig wrote: > Is the 'rxvt' package responsible for creating these > missing directories? Well, *I* think they ought to be created by the X system. Currently, you kinda get them by default IF you install any of the X-related packages, because unlike rxvt, those other package directly incor

Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

2009-06-20 Thread Mark Harig
After running setup-1.7.exe to install the package 'rxvt', I found the following error in /var/log/setup.log.full: 2009/06/20 16:00:17 running: C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile -c /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh Using the default version of /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt (/etc/defaults/etc/X1