From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: "'Karr, David'" <david.karr@cacheflow.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Prompt to create local package directory if it doesn't exist?
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101c12cb5$43ad2d10$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B74733420473EF9C@cf-bay-exch-03.cacheflow.com>
>
> Most install programs, when the user enters an "install directory"
that
> does
> not exist, present a prompt to the user asking if they want to create
that
> directory. The Cygwin setup does that too. However, it doesn't do
that
> for
> the "local package directory". If the local package directory doesn't
> exist, it just reports an error. Is there a good reason why it works
this
> way? I can see the possibility that someone might want to install
Cygwin
> in, say, "c:/cygwin", but set the local package directory to
> "c:/cygwin/install". If you want to do that, you have to precreate
the
> directory.
>
I wrote local package directory patch and I did not need it at this
moment. Sorry if I overlooked it. You are welcome to extend it.
-andrej
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2001-08-23 9:27 Karr, David
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