cabextract review (was Re: Pending package status (14 Jul 2003))

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:56:05AM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Are you saying that this extracts something outside of the source
>>directory itself?  If so, I don't see any reason to pollute /usr/src
>>with anything other than directories.
>
>No, the 'src' package for cabextract has the build script
>(`cygbuild.sh'), the stock source tarball and a patch, all of which
>would get extracted into /usr/src like any other package that uses a
>build script.

I must be behind the times because I sure don't like the idea of
something called 'cygbuild.sh' showing up in /usr/src.  Maybe I'm
missing something but I don't see anything which countenances that in
the source package write ups at <http://cygwin.com/setup.html>.  That
page seems to imply that the package build script should share the
name of the package.

cgf