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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:54:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing
- References: <NHEELHJHHFKPMAEAFMFCCEAMCNAA.huntharo@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:14:30PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>I have setup an anonymous ftp site with preliminary Cygwin/XFree86
>setup.exe packages: ftp://huntharo-4.user.msu.edu/pub/cygwin/
Looks like you figured out upset. Sorry about not responding.
>These is based entirely off of Ian Burrell's work.
>
>My primary concerns that I don't know how to resolve are:
>1) I didn't do the XFree86-base "meta" package properly. setup.exe
>does not list XFree86-base as a package and it doesn't enforce the
>dependencies of the other packages on XFree86-base.
It needs at least an empty tar file.
>2) I'm not sure why, but uninstalling packages often leaves files
>around. For example, uninstalling XFree86-f100 delete all files from
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ except for "UTRG__24.pcf.gz". Weird.
There was another report of cygwin not removing files in the cygwin
mailing list. Was that possibly the last in the list from a
/etc/setup/whatever.lst.gz file?
>3) We may need a short post-install script, based off of Xinstall.sh,
>that runs mkfontdir in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local and
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc font directories. Xinstall.sh says it
>does this to make sure that these directories are "up to date". I
>guess that every font package has the right to install fonts in local
>or misc, but it seems that none of them do. Perhaps this won't matter.
How about mounting the font directory in binmode, too?
cgf