Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/04/09/09:03:01
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:39:18AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Did we ever get "meta" packages enabled in Cygwin setup that are essentially
>file-less packages (e.g. XFree86 Minimum Install, XFree86 Standard Install,
>etc.) that depend on other packages?
Yep, as Robert indicated, this has been possible for a while.
For Cygwin/XFree86, what I'd like to do is have you all come up with
a few .tar.bz2 files which install into a /usr/X11R6,
/etc/X11, etc.
The hierarchy would be something like:
xfree
base
setup.hint
XFree-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2
XFree-4.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
doc
setup.hint
XFree-doc-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2
devel
setup.hint
XFree86-devel-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2
XFree86-devel-4.2.0-1-src.tar.bz2
(borrowing from the apparent Red Hat package names)
The setup hint file for base would be something like:
sdesc: "The basic fonts, programs and docs for an X workstation."
requires: cygwin termcap libncurses6 terminfo
category: XFree86
ldesc: "he X Window System provides the base technology for developing
graphical user interfaces. Simply stated, X draws the elements
of the GUI on the user's screen and builds methods for sending
user interactions back to the application. X also supports remote
application deployment--running an application on another computer
while viewing the input/output on your machine. X is a powerful
environment which supports many different applications, such as
games, programming tools, graphics programs, text editors, etc.
XFree86 is the version of X which runs on Linux, as well as on other
platforms.
This package contains the basic fonts, programs and documentation
for an X workstation. However, this package doesn't provide the
program which you will need to drive your video hardware. To
control your video card, you'll need the particular X server
package which corresponds to your computer's video card.
Additionally, you will need to install the Xconfigurator package, the xfs
X font server package and the XFree86-libs package.
You may also need to install one or more of the XFree86 fonts packages.
And finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as
X clients, you will also need to install XFree86-devel."
cgf
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