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Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 08:34:31 +1000 (EST)
From: "David O'Shea" <david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: info & Setup & RPM
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
> Actually, by default setup.exe installs everything.  If someone chooses not
> to install a complete installation and then is surprised when they do
> an "info gcc" and find that gcc is not available, I'm not going to be
> incredibly sympathetic.
> 
> However, if you want to submit a patch to setup.c, I'll certainly consider
> it.

I checked a few RPMs from Red Hat Linux (now I've learned that there's a
space in Red Hat) and noted that they just have postinstall scripts that
run install-info.  Maybe a similar sort of thing could be done here,
except just by having a special file in the .tar.gz file which setup
executes (and which can do any kind of specialised setup that is required
for that package).  Does anyone know if the FreeBSD or Slackware package
formats (both use .tar.gz, right?) have any sort of feature like this?
Maybe a port of pkg_add or something would be useful, then (I seem to
remember seeing something about that in the archives).

..or maybe we could have a custom version of the Red Hat installer (okay,
sorry, I know I shouldn't make suggestions like that unless I've got the
time to do it myself!).

Regards,
David


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