Headsup: several packages require .manifest files
Eric Blake
ebb9@byu.net
Wed Jun 10 12:59:00 GMT 2009
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According to Yaakov (Cygwin/X) on 6/7/2009 1:06 AM:
> The following packages ship with EXEs whose names trigger UAC in Vista
> and Windows 7 but do not yet ship with the required .manifest files:
>
> git (several in /usr/sbin/git-core[1])
I'll have that fixed soon, with git 1.6.3.2.
> [1] Which, AFAIK, should be /usr/lib/git-core per the FHS.
I think I can fix this, but wonder why cygport was setting libexecdir to
/usr/sbin in the first place.
> The newly-released cygport-0.9.6 (for cygwin-1.7 only) will
> automatically create .manifest files for programs whose names require
> it. All you need to do is rebuild your package with 0.9.6.
Thanks!
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Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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