Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00b301c234a4$6d47ad10$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Demmer, Thomas" , Cc: References: <8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA04F70CF2@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com> Subject: Re: Missing libc documentation Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:00:31 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 === ----- Original Message ----- From: "Demmer, Thomas" To: Cc: Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: RE: Missing libc documentation > Well, setup says during an upgrade that it first > uninstalls the old package, and then installs the new one. > Which files to uninstall it finds in /etc/setup/package. > I don't know if it checks if one of the files has changed, > and then not delete them but rename them to foo.old or > so. At least, this would be helpful for files like /etc/profile /etc/profile is not in any package. It is created if it is absent. Hopefully we will soon be putting it in a package, but as /etc/profile.default, and copying that over if it is missing. Cheers, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/