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On Nov 5 11:02, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 11/5/2013 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Nov 4 20:18, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >>Under the circumstances, configuring inetutils with > >>--libexecdir=/usr/sbin makes the most sense. > > > >Full ACK. Otherwise you'd have to provide some script which tweaks an > >existing /etc/inetd.conf to use the new paths. Possible, but hardly > >worth the effort. > > That's fine for me, but the other servers, maintained by others [1], > which may or may not by started by inetd/xinetd would also need to > configure as --libexecdir=/usr/sbin, or THEY would need to tweak > configurations. > > This seems...counter-intuitive. "cygwin follows the LSB and <the > stuff> goes in /usr/libexec, except when it's too hard so there is > the following list of exceptions...." Is that the policy going > forward? I can't exactly read Yaakov's brain, but to me the idea here is to keep the changes for the *user* small and working even after an update, rather than following the guidelines slavishly. > I wasn't planning to auto-update config scripts. I was going to > update the /etc/default/* scripts [2], and then WARN IN BIG LETTERS > in the announcement that folks will need to manually merge the > changes if they've modified their configuration files. I know > nobody will read it, but when the inevitable queries reach the > mailing list I'll be able to point to the ANNOUNCE post. > > [1] rsh-server, tftp-server, etc. rsh-server is your package. tftp-server *explicitely* installes into /usr/sbin aka --sbindir. sshd is installed into sbindir as well, btw., and not only on Cygwin, but upstream. Looks like there should nothing change, in fact. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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