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Re: SUGGESTION wrt preremove / postinstall / preinstall (RE: [FAQ]Packages reported as "Incomplete" by "cygcheck -c")

From: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Cc: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:00:32 +1000
Subject: Re: SUGGESTION wrt preremove / postinstall / preinstall (RE: [FAQ]Packages reported as "Incomplete" by "cygcheck -c")
References: <NGBBLLIAMFLGJEOAJCCEIEGCDEAA.garbage_collector@telia.com> <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309211859230.12411@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>

In general, setup needs to be taught about classes of files:
configuration files vs image files vs data and script files.

Once that general concept is in place, we can:
* support rpm and dpkg formats more effectively
* add classes for things like apache
* be smarter about rebasing 

etc etc etc


Rob

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