[Packaging error] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.12-1

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 5 01:06:00 GMT 2007


On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:59:47PM -0400, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>> Anyway, here's a thought that might be useful (unfortunately it seems to
>>> need a change to man to work nicely*); rather than prefixing pages, add
>>> them to a 'mingw' section. This way you can find them with 'man -S mingw
>>> <page>', and users that felt so inclined could add 'mingw' to their 
>>MANSECT.
>>
>>This sounds like a good idea to me.
>
>I'm happy to put the man pages where ever it's decided they should be
>(or don't put them anywhere if that's the preference).  As to
>modifying man, I'll leave that to the powers that be.
>
>Just let me know where I should put them (or I can remove them from
>the binary distribution, as I mentioned) and I'll gladly put together
>a new release.

It sounds like Corinna is in agreement that they should go in the
standard location with a mingw- prefix.

cgf



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