Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Feb 25 14:31:00 GMT 2004


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

[snip]

> XFree86-f*.sh: umount, cygpath, mount
> 	Note: the above script should also check that the directory is
> 	already mounted in the correct mode instead of unmounting and
> 	remounting it all the time.
> XFree86-lib.sh: mkdir, test?, tar, rm, ln
> XFree86-prog.sh: touch, ln
> XFree86-xserv.sh: ln

All should be fixed now.  Be aware that only the -prog package had its 
version bumped.  I did not bump the version on all packages since the 
changes were such that if the packages were successfully installed, then 
the changes did not matter; also, these packages (particularly the 
fonts) were huge so it is worth not forcing people to download 20 MB to 
get 100 bytes of minor changes.

> fontconfig.sh: dirname, basename, diff, cp, mkdir
> 	Note: this one also uses bash syntax.  Moreover, it requires things
> 	like "diff" and "dirname"/"basename" to run, but neither "diffutils"
> 	nor "sh-utils" are in the "requires" clause of "fontconfig".

fontconfig-2.2.0-2 was released and should address all of these issues.

Thanks for notifying me of these issues Igor, I appreciate it.

Harold



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