Lesstif update II

[Brian Ford]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Oh... I don't think that will work because I don't believe that the
> Cygwin installer guarantees installation order (or maybe it was the
> order that the post-install scripts were run in)... but I could be wrong.
>
Doh!  It is the post install installation order that is not guaranteed.  I
think the actual install order does take into account dependencies.

> On the other hand, you could just add the same code that creates the
> links to the lesstif package... that way the links would be sure to
> exist no matter what.
>
This just seems like a hack.  Surely lesstif is not the only package that
tries to install its app-defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults.

Attached is a new XFree86-lib.sh post install script that implements the
method described in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/Install section 4.2
"Installing over an old installation".  Please release a new XFree86-lib
with this fix.

I will consider changing the lesstif package to install its app-defaults
in /etc/X11 in the future if it does not appear to be too painful.

Thanks.

> Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that a simple and maybe correct solution would just be to
> > have the lesstif package require the Xlib package.  That seems to make
> > sense and would assure that the links are made before lesstif (mwm) tries
> > to put something there.  What do you think about that?
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> >
> >>I honestly don't know why.  I think it was something that was done by
> >>the Xinstall.sh script.  Someone else with more X knowledge will have to
> >>answer this question... however, I am perfectly willing to accept a
> >>patch that maybe prevents the links from being created if the
> >>directories already exist.  Or something along those lines.
> >>

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Brian Ford
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#!/bin/sh

Xconfig=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
etcXconfig=/etc/X11

mkdir -p $etcXconfig

subconfigs="app-defaults fs lbxproxy proxymngr rstart twm xdm xinit xsm xserver"
for dir in $subconfigs; do
    mkdir -p $etcXconfig/$dir
    if test -d $Xconfig/$dir; then
	tar -C $Xconfig/$dir -cf - . | tar -C $etcXconfig/$dir -xvpUf - && \
	rm -rf $Xconfig/$dir
    fi
    ln -sf $etcXconfig/$dir $Xconfig
done