From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9219 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2016 16:44:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9203 invoked by uid 89); 30 Aug 2016 16:44:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:cygwin, H*Ad:U*yselkowitz, H*F:U*yselkowitz X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:44:17 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6D9661E54 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.116.17] (ovpn-116-17.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.17]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u7UGiEre007971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:44:16 -0400 Subject: Re: update_etc_shells gone from cygport? To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <59ae5afa-ab8e-2d81-cdf8-7dff63a8edd0@cygwin.com> <20160830124848.GA28244@calimero.vinschen.de> <9bd4f614-2c3c-8cdb-7908-050cb5aa407f@cygwin.com> <20160830154543.GH23664@calimero.vinschen.de> <87k2eyb5dm.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Yaakov Selkowitz Message-ID: <8b37782f-eee9-47e7-3582-b4391b64c6a4@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:44:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87k2eyb5dm.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 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