Redirected to correct mailing list. On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:46:41AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: >Please excuse my ignorance on this issue, >I am a very happy user of cygwin, and would like to port more packages >to cygwin. > >I have tried to find this information in the documents >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ >There is much information about the file permissions an ntsec, but no >guidelines for package authors and installations. >I guess I could try and use the netsec package, but what If I want to >build packages under win95/98? > >This is also an issue with cross compilation, how can I change the >package to be root for installation on another (GNU/Linux)machine? > >I am using cygwin as an Adminstrator of my own win2k machine, >and have installed it myself. I am able to install packages and modifiy >the files that would normally under GNU/linux would be not accessable. > >All my files are created under "Administrator(500)", this is the root. > >My question is : is there any need to set the uid to 0 when creating >packages like under debian. >Is there any need to do any more setting of uids for files? >I have been trying to port the fakeroot program to cygwin, it compiles >and crashes. As far as I can tell, I dont need it. At least not to set >the uid of the files to anything special. > >Can someone please point me in the right direction on this, and please >excuse my ingorance. > >Thanks, > >Mike > > >===== >James Michael DuPont >http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More >http://faith.yahoo.com
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