[bug] configs overwrote

[Harold L Hunt II]

Yes, that is exactly what I was thinking.  Somebody please send a patch.

Harold

Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:

>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>From: Krzysztof Dulêba <krzysan@skrzynka.pl>
>>Subject: [bug] configs overwrote
>>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:14:24 +0200
> 
> 
>>I know I may be not precise enough, but I haven't used X-Window for few
>>months and I don't know what and how had actually happened. However, I see
>>the result: my xinitrc file was overwrote during some installation. 
> 
> 
> It's important to remember that setup will update packages automatically,
> unless you explicitly prevent it from doing so!   All the X11 packages have
> been updated recently.
> 
> 
>>It's a bit of a pain so I have a remark: why don't post-install scripts make a
>>backup, or just ask Overwrite [y/n]?
> 
> 
> I think that the ideal solution would be for post-install scripts to make
> backup copies.  I avoi the problem by manually creating backup copies
> of all locally-modified scripts before running setup; for example, the
> customized version of startxwin.bat is copied to startxwin.bat.local and a
> copy of the original is kept in startxwin.bat.orig.   This makes it easy to
> keep track of the changes which I've made and to incorporate them into a 
> new version of the script.
>