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RE: [update] base-files and base-passwd
- From: "John Morrison" <john dot r dot morrison at ntlworld dot com>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre at phumblet dot no-ip dot org>,"Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:06:45 +0100
- Subject: RE: [update] base-files and base-passwd
> From: Pierre A. Humblet
> Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2004 6:25 pm
Hi Pierre
> could you use "cp -p" in base-files-profile.sh?
No problem, I'll upload a -2
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-fil
es-3.0-2.tar.bz2>
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum>
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/setup.hi
nt>
> The postinstall exim.sh uses the non-existence of /etc/exim.conf
> as the sign that it's a fresh installation. That test doesn't
> work right if it happens to run after base-files-profile.sh,
> because it creates /etc/exim.conf from /etc/defaults/etc
It should do now, for the 3.x release I changed the base-files-profile.sh
to only install files that are listed in the manifest file. This manifest
file is also used when upgrading to future versions :)
> Being able to compare dates would greatly help.
> Otherwise base-files-profile.sh looks fine.
> Thanks
Thank you for looking at it so quick!
J.