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RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:27:18 -0500
- Subject: RE: And we have a xfree cygwin package.. (What are they called?)
Okay, I mirrored the files:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/xbase-4.2.0-1.tar.bz2
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/setup.hint
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xbase/md5.sum
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!
>