Re: how to resolve package file conflicts?

2004-09-05 Thread Bruce Ingalls
From: Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm preparing two packages, unison and unison-gtk2, which offer conflicting versions of /usr/bin/unison.exe -- the first a text-mode client, the second a GTK2 client. How should I address this? Is there a mechanism in the packaging system for identify

itp: rdesktop 1.3.1.0; setup script

2004-05-24 Thread Bruce Ingalls
generating setup.hint easier. Not sure how to script the date. #/bin/sh #-*-Shell-Script-*-Time-stamp: <2004-05-23 07:28:32 Adrian> #Copyright © 1998, 2004 by Bruce Ingalls bingalls(at)users.sourceforge(dot)net #See file COPYING for GPL license. # $Id$ #Script to build Cygwin packages. For

ITP: EMacro resubmission

2004-04-20 Thread Bruce Ingalls
I have redesigned EMacro, the Emacs/XEmacs editor configuration system, to make it more compliant with Cygwin packaging. It is resubmitted at: http://emacro.sourceforge.net/cygwin/ which can be added as a url to your setup.exe. Currently, EMacro is in beta form. Once its packaging is approved, I e

Re: a script to remove empty directories

2004-02-19 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Andreas Seidl wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Seidl wrote: Hmm, wouldn't the generic build script be the place to add functionality to remove empty directories? Doing it by hand adds work, and even worse, is a possible source for bugs, as a newer release might have

vim / cream

2003-12-27 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Some members of this list expressed interest in packaging http://cream.sourceforge.net/ for Cygwin. Here is why I doubt this will happen soon: I chatted with Steve Hall, the author, and unfortunately, Cream is only effective, when run as a gui with menus. Cream is partially useful for console mode

Re: ITP emacro 2.8.5

2003-12-12 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: ... How about you let the users keep their existing .emacs, and simply prepend a block of text to it in the postinstall script, something like ;; Check whether EMacro is installed, and if so, source it (cond ((file-exists-p "/etc/EMacro.el")

Re: ITP emacro 2.8.5

2003-12-12 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Bruce, Please keep replies on the mailing list. Oops. I've been spoiled by lists that automatically set the _reply-to:_ header. EMacro is a .emacs system that makes Emacs (and XEmacs) easy. http://emacro.sourceforge.net/cygwin/ Since emacro is, if I under

Re: Ann: EMacro 2.8.5

2003-12-09 Thread Bruce Ingalls
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:00:22PM -0500, Bruce Ingalls wrote: EMacro, an .emacs, which makes Emacs and XEmacs easy, is now available at http://emacro.sourceforge.net/cygwin/ Just add this to setup.exe's URIs. Have you noticed how other people do this? How

Ann: EMacro 2.8.5

2003-12-09 Thread Bruce Ingalls
EMacro, an .emacs, which makes Emacs and XEmacs easy, is now available at http://emacro.sourceforge.net/cygwin/ Just add this to setup.exe's URIs.

Re: /WINDOWS

2003-12-08 Thread Bruce Ingalls
This allows to keep the above described code to set $PATH in the affected tools, just by redefining, say _PATH_DEFPATH like this: #ifdef _PATH_DEFPATH #undef _PATH_DEFPATH #define _PATH_DEFPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/WINDOWS/system32:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND/WINDOWS/system32/Wbem" #endif which contain