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Re: profile package


On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:27:06PM +0200, Hack Kampbj?rn wrote:
>John Morrison wrote:
>> 
>> There's now a 1.0-2.  Added a little more functionality and
>> lots more comments.
>> 
>> I've not recieved much feedback wrt this.  Come on folks -
>> what do you think?
>> 
>> sdesc: "Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin"
>> ldesc: "Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin"
>> category: base
>> 
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/profile/profile-1.0-
>> 2.tar.bz2
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/profile/setup.hint
>> 
>> J.
>
>What about depending on all the programs called in the scripts like:
># cp, mkdir -> fileutils
># hostname, id -> sh-utils
># sh -> ash
># tr -> textutils
>requires: ash fileutils sh-utils textutils
>
>Maybe the postinstall script could create the directory structure: /dev,
>/home, /var, /tmp, symlink hosts and services to the real windows files

Yes, this is a valid point except maybe for the sh case, since the point
of these files is to help with sh/bash.

cgf


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