Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/rxvt.sh

[Charles Wilson]

Mark Harig wrote:

> Is the 'rxvt' package responsible for creating these
> missing directories?

Well, *I* think they ought to be created by the X system.  Currently,
you kinda get them by default IF you install any of the X-related
packages, because unlike rxvt, those other package directly incorporate, eg.

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

so when the xterm-242-1.tar.bz2 package is unpacked: viola! you have
/etc/X11/app-defaults/

But, none of those packages SHOULD be doing it that way.  They SHOULD be
doing it the rxvt way, where the "default defaults" are installed into

/etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/

and a postinstall script copies the file from there into
/etc/X11/app-defaults/ if and only if the current copy has not been
changed from the previous /etc/default/ version.  (That is, *preserve
user customizations*).  None of the other packages do that.

That having been said...rxvt is stealing a march by assuming
/etc/X11/app-defaults/ exists.  It's not clear -- if all the other
packages did it the "rxvt way" -- WHO exactly should be responsible for
creating the directory.

I'll enhance the rxvt postinstall script to handle that in a future release.

--
Chuck


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