[HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area

Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
Thu Apr 3 19:53:00 GMT 2008


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  3 15:10, Larry Hall wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Apr  3 14:45, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>> # Commented line below represents the default '/' mount point.  To 
>>>> override
>>>> # this, uncomment the line and make the appropriate changes.
>>> Well, it's *my* /etc/fstab file.  You can just omit the root dir entry
>>> on your machine, or override it with something else.  I don't think
>>> anybody on the world really needs or even expects an explaining comment
>>> on my local machine, except, maybe, a hacker :)
>> I guess I misunderstood.  I thought this was an example of a generated
>> fstab file.  So is there going to be a generated file with generated
>> entries too once this gets out into the "real world"?
> 
> See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00002.html
> and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00003.html
> 
> I guess that would be something for the postinstall script which
> is supposed to generate the fstab file.

Ah.  A postinstall script.  Yeah, that could work.

Thanks,

-- 
Larry



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