On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Harig, Mark wrote:
> > From: Christopher Faylor
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: Upgraded man command
> >
> > This seems like a good candidate for bugzilla:
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin
> >
> > The component for the bug would be "Cygwin Applications".
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:06 PM
> > Subject: RE: Upgraded man command
> >
> > There's always the solution that base-files uses for replacing various
> > config files -- it checks whether the file is the same as the default
> > in the preremove script, and erases it if so. Then the postinstall
> > script copies the new default, and the config file is up-to-date.
> > This won't work if the users edited their config files, but should
> > work in most cases.
>
> OK. I will submit a bug report suggesting that
> /etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst be updated
> to include /usr/share/misc/man.conf.
Sure, but that'll only work if base-files is reinstalled/upgraded at the
same time as the man package. If we want the man package to be
self-contained, we should add the same logic that's in
/etc/preremove/base-files.sh to /etc/preremove/man.sh.
Incidentally, the code that looks through the manifest file and does the
comparisons can be factored out to something like
/etc/preremove/remove-defaults.sh, and then invoked from both man.sh and
base-files.sh as "/etc/preremove/remove-defaults.sh
/etc/preremove/man-manifest.lst" or "/etc/preremove/remove-defaults.sh
/etc/preremove/base-files-manifest.lst", respectively. Unless we ever get
a package called "remove-defaults", this should be safe to do. The actual
script can be part of the base-files package (once setup is changed to run
all preremove scripts first, before removing package contents).
Igor
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