info: single install xfree86 + minimal cygwin?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Apr 20 15:57:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:53:34PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:34:29PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
>>Is the script for building setup.ini files from a directory hierarchy 
>>available anywhere? I want to setup a test install directory with the 
>>full hierarchy and setup.hint files.
>>
>>Also, I ran into a problem with the xfree-fonts-100dpi and 
>>xfree-fonts-75dpi packages. With a hand-generated setup.ini, they 
>>weren't being displayed. This might be because the last component starts 
>>with a number and something is confused about where the version starts. 
>
>Yes, a -75dpi part of a tar file will look like a version number.
>
>Can you use an underscore instead?

Btw, the new version of 'upset' does the right thing with things like this.
If you have a directory called 'XFree86-fonts-100dpi' it will no longer
assume that 100dpi is part of the version string.  It just uses the directory
name as a prefix for the .tar.bz2 files.

cgf



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