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Re: XFree86 4.2.0
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Alan Hourihane" <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:06:28 +1100
- Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.0
- References: <20020121002245.F2502@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
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From: "Alan Hourihane" <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: XFree86 4.2.0
> XFree86 4.2.0 has been tagged and the binaries are showing up on
> ftp.xfree86.org now.
>
> Are we bothering with a distribution as per the normal XFree86
approach?
> or is anyone working on distributing XFree86 4.2.0 via the setup.exe
> mechanism ?
All that should be needed (as a starting point) for a setup.exe based
distribution (if your current tarballs are rooted at / ) is to
* Create a src package(s) as appropriate. You can have one for all the
binaries (*)
* Rename any hardcoded config files that users might change to
foo.default or similar.
* If you've got scripts to do post-extraction tasks, such as create
desktop icons or the like, place them in /etc/postinstall/packagename.sh
* Create setup.hint files - one per .tar.gz|bz2/
* Check with http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html to see if anything has
been missed.
(*) via a little trickery.
Rob