From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: update_etc_shells gone from cygport?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b37782f-eee9-47e7-3582-b4391b64c6a4@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2eyb5dm.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 2016-08-30 11:15, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>>> update_etc_shells /bin/tcsh /bin/csh
>>>
>>> But I think we need to coordinate this with an updated base-cygwin.
>>
>> base-cygwin? Not base-files?
>
> The file /etc/shells is currently installed by base-files from
> /etc/defaults/etc/shells unless it had been altered. So if you invent a
> mechanism to alter the contents of the file, /etc/shells will cease to
> be handled in pre-remove and post-install of base-files automatically,
> I'd think. We could then remove it of course.
Yes, /etc/shells would end up staying once altered by update_etc_shells,
but I don't see an issue with that.
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-30 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-29 12:40 Chris Sutcliffe
2016-08-29 18:05 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-08-30 12:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-30 15:17 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-08-30 15:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-30 15:54 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-08-30 16:15 ` Achim Gratz
2016-08-30 16:44 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2016-08-31 8:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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