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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available forcomments and testing
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:14:30PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>>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.
>
XFree86-base would be the perfect place to put Cygwin specific
documentation.
>>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?
>
Is there a way to detect if the fonts directory is already mounted in
binmode? That is the default, isn't it.
- Ian
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