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From: John Marshall <jmarshall@acm.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: new site for my ports is up
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011115100549.A1695@kahikatea.pohutukawa.gen.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BF2F6AD.726DB93E@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0500

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> My point was that the off-site versions should install into /usr/local
> (or /opt/ or whatever, just *NOT* /usr).  When you're ready to
> contribute them to the main dist, THEN (and only then) rebuild them to
> install into /usr and upload (to sourceware) as a test release.

Er, can you say why?

Over in RPM land, I have users telling me that they want the
/usr v /usr/local decision to be determined by whether something is
package managed (and thus uninstallable via rpm/setup), rather than
by whether it happens to come from the vendor.

So I get flamed for producing a .rpm that installs to /usr/local, and
am probably going to change to /usr because I think they're right.

Many of my dumb users want to run Cygwin programs from a DOS window.
So if I installed to /usr/local I would need to tell them to add two
directories (C:\Cygwin\bin & C:\Cygwin\usr\local\bin) to their Windows
PATH instead of one, increasing the scope for screwups.

Currently I produce a package for Cygwin setup.exe that installs to
/usr, and I'm about to start getting flamed for that too?  :-)

Having off-site packages install to /usr/local on Cygwin would certainly
show whether they were official or not (cf rpm -qi), but that information
is already pretty much available in /etc/setup/installed.db if off-site
people deliver their package tarballs to setup in a directory other than
"latest" or "contrib".

    John

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-15 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-11  8:26 Gerrit P. Haase
2001-11-11  8:26 ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11  8:26   ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26     ` Gerrit P. Haase
2001-11-11  8:26       ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11  8:26         ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11  8:26           ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26             ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11  8:26               ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26         ` John Marshall [this message]
2001-11-11  8:26           ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11  8:26             ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26               ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26             ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26               ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26                 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26                   ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26                     ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26               ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11  8:26           ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26             ` Jochen Küpper
2001-11-11  8:26               ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11  8:26                 ` Jochen Küpper
2001-11-11  8:26       ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26       ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11  8:26         ` Gerrit P. Haase
2001-11-11  8:26           ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11  8:26         ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26           ` Stipe Tolj
2001-11-11  8:26             ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26 Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26   ` Robert Collins
2001-11-11  8:26     ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26   ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26     ` Charles Wilson
2001-11-11  8:26       ` Christopher Faylor
2001-11-11  8:26 David A. Cobb

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