RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

> Looks like you figured out upset.  Sorry about not responding.

Actually, I did the same thing that Ian did and reverted to the upset from:
anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src

in the directory:
winsup/cinstall/temp

That version of upset reports the version number as the whole file name
before the .tar.bz2 (i.e. XFree86-bin-4.2.0-1 instead of 4.2.0-1) and also
manages to mangle the version reported from setup.exe:
setup-version: 2.194.2.24^@ %d.%d.%d.%d^@Can't

Oh well, at least I got the script to do a little bit of what I needed it
for.  :)


> It needs at least an empty tar file.

Okay.  I'm working on that now.


> >2) I'm not sure why, but uninstalling packages often leaves files
> >around.  For example, uninstalling XFree86-f100 delete all files from
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ except for "UTRG__24.pcf.gz".  Weird.
>
> There was another report of cygwin not removing files in the cygwin
> mailing list.  Was that possibly the last in the list from a
> /etc/setup/whatever.lst.gz file?

Yes.  That is it exactly.  I also tried this with the XFree86-bin file and
it failed to remove libXxf86vm.a, which was the last file in
XFree86-bin.lst.gz.


> >3) We may need a short post-install script, based off of Xinstall.sh,
> >that runs mkfontdir in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local and
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc font directories.  Xinstall.sh says it
> >does this to make sure that these directories are "up to date".  I
> >guess that every font package has the right to install fonts in local
> >or misc, but it seems that none of them do.  Perhaps this won't matter.
>
> How about mounting the font directory in binmode, too?

Excellent idea.  Now I just need someone to write that script.  Shouldn't be
too hard.  Any takers?


Harold