update_etc_shells gone from cygport?

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 30 15:17:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-08-30 07:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 29 13:05, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2016-08-29 07:40, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>> A new release of mksh was made so I fired up cygport to package it and
>>> found out that "update_etc_shells" no longer seems to be part of
>>> cygport (I'm running cygport 0.22.0).  Is there a new function that's
>>> replaced "update_etc_shells"?
>>
>> It was just a proposed patch but got lost among other things.  I just pushed
>> it into git master.
>
> Can somebody please quickly explain what changes this requires in, say,
> a potential tcsh cygport script?

tcsh is actually the example in the documentation. :-)  Add the 
following to src_install():

update_etc_shells /bin/tcsh /bin/csh

But I think we need to coordinate this with an updated base-cygwin.

-- 
Yaakov



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