RE: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-29 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
> From: Eric Blake > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 14:19 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2 > > ... > Perhaps unspoken, but I prefer suffix-less executables. Then I don't > have to care whether they are binary or interpreted

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:44:34PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > >>> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein > >>> FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. > > I actually didn't say that, but I alluded to it. That is true: From: "Lee Maschmeyer" It was another Lee... > > First some importan

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:19:27PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, d.sastre.medina wrote: > >> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein: > >> FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. > > > > Fair enough. > > Two options, then: > > > > -patching the manpage > > -pat

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, Sastre wrote: >>> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein >>> FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. I actually didn't say that, but I alluded to it. >> Fair enough. >> Two options, then: >> >> -patching the manpage >> -patching the s

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: >> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein : >> FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. > > Fair enough. > Two options, then: > > -patching the manpage > -patching the source and the cygport > > None of them involve too much

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
> 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein : >FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source and the cygport None of them involve too much work. So now I would like to know (from some authoritative source :)) if a

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:33:03PM +0200, David Sastre wrote: > 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein : ^^^ Ouch...! There is something _evil_ in those webmails. Sorry. *goes to write 100 times PCYMTNQREAIYR in the blackboard* -- Huella de clave primaria:

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread David Sastre
Hello, >Shouldn't this be: >$ makeself.sh -h ? Yes. The correct way to invoke makeself is calling `makeself.sh'. /usr/bin/makeself-header.sh /usr/bin/makeself.sh >Why are we using the '.sh' extension with 'makeself', again? Upstream sources keep the extension, other distros strip it, i.e. Debi

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
david sastre wrote: New package "makeself-2.1.5-2" has been uploaded. makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then unc