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RE: updated procps package
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Chris January <chris at atomice dot net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:51:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: RE: updated procps package
--- Chris January <chris@atomice.net> wrote:
> > > I've updated the procps package.
> >
> > -You still have a /usr/bin/kill.exe (which conflicts with cygwin's).
> > It appears to be a copy of your skill.exe. Also the kill.1 and ps.1
> > manpages conflict with cygwin-doc.
> > Just a suggestion, since you already patch the Makefile to get
> > kill->kill.exe and ps->ps.exe, why not patch the Makefile to create
> > kill->prockill.exe, etc.? That way no mixups.
> >
> This is really an instance of two packages providing different versions of
> the same program. I changed the name of the executables in the binary
> package to avoid the conflict, but if someone is building from source, it is
> really up to them how they resolve it. They may choose to put the binaries
> in a different directory with their original names, for example.
> I have however renamed the manual pages and kill.exe in the binary package -
> that was an oversight on my part.
Well, I personally like to be able to do a 'make install' and it be exactly
like the binary package. But, you're the packager.
This looks good now and has my vote (though I don't believe it needs any more.)
Thanks for putting this together, I especially missed 'free'.
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