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Re: pdksh package proposal
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:03:17AM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> http://twoducks.exposure.org.uk/elfyn/cygwin/pdksh/pdksh-5.2.14-1-src.tar.bz
> 2
> http://twoducks.exposure.org.uk/elfyn/cygwin/pdksh/pdksh-5.2.14-1.tar.bz2
> http://twoducks.exposure.org.uk/elfyn/cygwin/pdksh/setup.hint
>
> category: Shells
> requires: cygwin
> sdesc: "A public domain ksh"
> ldesc: "PD-ksh is a clone of the AT&T Korn shell. At the moment,
> it has most of the ksh88 features, not much of the ksh93
> features, and a number of it's own features."
This has my vote.
I reviewed the packaging and I found one problems in the binary package:
Even though you install the /etc files via postinstall script, they
are already installed in /etc. This way they do overwrite the already
existing files and the postinstall script will do basically nothing.
Corinna
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