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RE: Textutils 2.0.16-1 (part 1 of 3)
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- Subject: RE: Textutils 2.0.16-1 (part 1 of 3)
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:57:48 +1100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> You don't put install: or source: in it. It's supposed to be a "hint"
> for information that can't be inferred otherwise, like
> category, sdesc,
> or requires.
Woops, my fault - it looked ok to me :[. Hmm, what would be neat would
be a setup.hint lint.
> Also, AFAIK, setup.exe doesn't allow different categories or
> requirements
> for different versions since these fields apply on a per-package not
> a per-version basis.
You're correct, but they shouldn't cause parsing errors AFAIK.
> Anyway, I've modified the setup.hint to this:
>
> sdesc: The GNU text file processing utilities
> category: base
> requires: ash cygwin
Thank you.
Rob