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Re: ITP: alternatives
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:51:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: ITP: alternatives
- References: <42BE2337.9060203@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Charles Wilson wrote:
As discussed in this thread:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-06/msg00066.html
ftp://cygutils.fruitbat.org/pub/cygutils/alternatives-1.3.20a-1-src.tar.bz2
ftp://cygutils.fruitbat.org/pub/cygutils/alternatives-1.3.20a-1.tar.bz2
ftp://cygutils.fruitbat.org/pub/cygutils/alternatives.hint
hint text
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category: Base
sdesc: "A tool for managing package conflicts"
ldesc: "The alternatives provides mechanisms for maintaining a
database of, and managing, other packages which might be in conflict
with each other. The end user can easily switch between the desired
versions."
requires: libintl3 libiconv2
FWIW, I modified all of the automake1.X packages to use
update-alternatives in their postinstall/preremove scripts instead of
the existing homegrown shell code. Works like a charm.
Can I get a GTG from somebody (I know, it's the weekend...)? -- I think
that's all I need as Debian includes this in its distro.
Also, is 'Base' the appropriate category (*I* think so, but some
confirmation from some of the core team would be good.)
--
Chuck
/usr/sbin/alternatives.exe
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives -> alternatives.exe
/usr/share/doc/alternatives-1.3.20a/*
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/alternatives-1.3.20a.README
/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/alternatives.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/alternatives.8.gz