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BUG: alternatives
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:34:45 -0600
- Subject: BUG: alternatives
More investigation reveals that it's textmode mounts that alternatives
doesn't like, not necessarily (although almost certainly as well as) \r\n
line endings.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:04 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: alternatives
>
> This shouldn't be happening, should it?:
>
> $ ls -l /var/lib/alternatives
> total 2
> -rwx------+ 1 GaryV None 103 Jul 4 23:15 automake
> -rwx------+ 1 GaryV None 420 Jul 11 18:07 libpng
>
> $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --config libpng failed to read
> /var/lib/alternatives/libpng: No error
>
> $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --config automake failed to read
> /var/lib/alternatives/automake: No error
>
> This is with snapshot 20051103 21:02:10, but this is the
> first time I've ever tried to use alternatives, so that could
> have nothing to do with anything.
>
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> Gary R. Van Sickle
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