profile package

[Earnie Boyd]

John Morrison wrote:
> 
> > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> > John Morrison wrote:
> > >
> > > There's now a 1.0-2.  Added a little more functionality and
> > > lots more comments.
> > >
> > > I've not recieved much feedback wrt this.  Come on folks -
> > > what do you think?
> >
> > I haven't looked at the package but
> >
> > > sdesc: "Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin"
> > > ldesc: "Core common files needed for correct operation of cygwin"
> >
> > I don't believe this to be the correct description of the package.
> 
> Rob supplied the descriptions, I'm sure cygwin will operate without
> profile, but would just "Core common files" be sufficient?
> 
> Debian's description (slightly altered) is:
> 
> sdesc: "Base system miscellaneous files"
> ldesc: "This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy, and
>  several important miscellaneous files"
> 
> Would this be better?
> 

No, more like:

sdesc: "Default environment initialization scripts"
ldesc: "This package contains the default environment initialization
        scripts for the Cygwin logon process.  It also contains skeleton
        scripts in /etc/skel and other example scripts that you could 
        create in your HOME directory in /usr/doc/Cygwin/examples/."

> > > category: base
> > Shouldn't there be a dependency on the Cygwin package?
> 
> ack :)
> 
> requires: cygwin
> 
> Do you think it needs any shells?
> 
> the Deb package consists of: (relevant to Cygwin)
> 
> etc/debian_version
> etc/host.conf
> etc/inputrc
> etc/issue
> etc/issue.net
> etc/nsswitch.conf
> etc/profile
> 
> with a seperate base-passwd which "provides the
> master /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, containing
> allocated user and group IDs, plus the update-passwd
> utility to keep them up to date."
> 
> Note that I'm willing to do this package too :)
> 

I don't understand this.  I thought that this "profile package" would do
that.  It must create the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files if setup
isn't going to.

Earnie.
BTW, I like initscripts for the package name.