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Re: initscripts package available for review/upload
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:02:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: initscripts package available for review/upload
- References: <3DD31248.10605@ece.gatech.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:02:32PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> This also was the result of the premature uploading of sysvinit in the
> first place; anyone who installed sysvinit and THEN upgraded cygutils
> lost last.exe and utmpdump.exe.
I'm sorry that I uploaded sysvinit too early. :-( I missed that detail.
> One other minor niggle: sysvinit contains a number of section 8
> manpages for programs that are not included in the sysvinit package
> (shutdown, reboot, poweroff? halt?). Should those manpages be moved
> into Corinna's shutdown package, or should Corinna's windows version of
> shutdown be absorbed into your sysvinit package?
>
> But that's between you and Corinna. If status quo w.r.t. those
> manpages, while confusing, is okay with you two, then I guess that's fine.
I'd say, the manpages should be removed. The usage of the Windows
shutdown isn't quite compatible with that shutdown.
Corinna
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