On Fri, 13 May 2005, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Angelo Graziosi on 5/12/2005 5:20 PM:
> > Summarizing I want to know if the problems I described
> >
> > are bugs of some Cygwin packages (should I wait for new upgrades?)
>
> If you don't mind the wait, you can wait for the upgrade of base-files,
> which hopefully will fix the issue of the poor defaults.
base-files has only started updating unmodified /etc/profile rather
recently. If Angelo's /etc/profile comes from an earlier version of
base-files, the upgrade won't do anything for him. Of course, if he's
modified /etc/profile, the upgrade won't work in any case.
> > are the normal behaviour of Cygwin, so that if I do not like them
> > I should change the configuration in .bashrc or .bash_profile or
> > .inputrc or in /etc/profile.
>
> If you are impatient, delete the line that calls "stty erase '^?'" in
> /etc/profile, or add a line in your ~/.bash_profile that calls "stty
> erase ^H". Changing /etc/profile means you will not get automatic
> updates from the next base-files release, so I would recommend doing it
> in ~/.bash_profile.
If /etc/profile is old, and hasn't been changed by the user, deleting it
before upgrading base-files would probably be a good idea... Once a new
/etc/profile is installed, it'll be kept up-to-date automatically (unless,
of course, it's been modified, as Eric mentioned).
Igor
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