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RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)


Andrew,

I'm mirroring it right now... nobody else download from the link below.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Markebo
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:50 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
> 
> 
> Throw a browser at:
>         http://flognat.myip.org/xbase 
>                 (ehm cable-modem, so it is not that fast, would
>         apreciate if someone with faster connection could mirror it ;-))
> 
> xbase, one package with all the required files.. 
> 
> There are couple of small quirks, but I thought you should throw an
> eye on it before I fixed those.. ;-) at least it fires up when I start
> startxwin.bat.
> 
> A couple of setup questions...  
> 
> * Is it ok to ask the user questions and so on in the postinstall
>   script??
> 
> * there are some questions in the xinstall script about manually
>   adding stuff to the termcap database, asks if it should replace some
>   files.. do we need to do anything there?
> 
> Some of the files are read-only, meaning that overwriting them can't
> be done, don't know if it is anything to worry about? (It was just me
> who had problems continuing a aborted installation)
> 
> I am just mainly exercising :-) Feeling around with the setup and so
> on, assuming that I would do the version where we took all the
> tgz-files and made setup.hints for them all, where in the hierarchy
> should they be put??
> 
> cygwin/contrib/xfree/Xbin/setup.hint
>                      Xbin/Xbin.tgz   
>                      Xetc/setup.hint
>                      Xetc/Xetc.tgz
> or  
> 
> cygwin/contrib/Xbin/setup.hint
>                Xbin/Xbin.tgz   
>                Xetc/setup.hint
>                Xetc/Xetc.tgz
> 
> When planning for this, I have the thought of basically,
> startup-scripts requires Xbin.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xfenc.tgz 
> Xfnts.tgz Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz 
> Xxserv.tgz.. these require startup-scripts (hmm maybe rename to 
> xstartupscripts?)
> 
> the other packages like Xf100, Xfscl, Xnext.. requires
> startup-scripts.. 
> 
>         /Andy
> 
> -- 
>  The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!
> 


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