Re: where should patches be sent?
Previously Robert Collins wrote:
> 1) Alter debian/rules to be .exe extension aware (only affects cygwin).
> 2) Alter all chmod root.root / install -o root -g root in debian/rules
> to
> be $(ROOTUSER).$(ROOTGROUP)/ -o $(ROOTUSER) -g $(ROOTGROUP), with the
> default values being root and root. Cygwin users override on the command
> line (perhaps in the future automagically) with their appropriate root
> user and group values. (i.e. Administrator and Administrators).
Souds reasonable
> 3) Alter all (found) instances of root checking in .c or scripts to use
> permission
> checks instead. (i.e. try and fail, rather than assume failure). (Only
> affects cygwin).
We should move those checks into a single place that routines can
call when needed.
> 4) A few timing calls in some perl scripts, to help address in-use file
> replacement races. This is both a partial fix, and not-really-needed as
> dpkg should not be installing stuff with cygwin - setup.exe is used for
> that. Still, if something is going to be done, do it right.
Don't bother, those scripts are being rewritten in python so working
on merging changes in the perl implementation might be a waste of
effort.
> In the future there will also be a file mode set of patches, to force
> binary or text mode reading and writing on appropriate files. That's not
> even started yet.
Is that really needed?
Wichert.
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