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From: "Alan Miles" <miles0201 AT cox DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:24:31 -0500
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Rob,

Sorry it has been a looong week ... with quite a number of looong weeks
ahead,
and I misinterpreted your response.

Anyway, I appreciate your responses. I am going to try a preremove script. I
have just checked http://cygwin.com/setup.html
to see if there is any online info about how these work, but I couldn't see
any.

Anyway with the preremove script, I am going to try an unmount first of any
specific mounted dir's prior to the removal of the package.

I am aware (as I subscribe to cygwin-apps) that there is allot of work being
done on setup.exe and cygwin dll (1.5.1) and not being familiar with the
program would take allot of work to get up to speed.

However, I would be more than willing to share my results of the preremove
script, if the unmounting works.

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com]
Sent: August 1, 2003 17:00
To: alan DOT miles AT ieee DOT org
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe


On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:45, Alan Miles wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Thanks for the message.
>
> However, my "packages" did NOT create these directories - I just wish to
> mount them, therefore setup should not be deleting them. For example,

I understand that. Which part of my email suggested I did not understand
the problem?

It's known. The cause it predictable. We could do better - hey, you're
welcome to join in the development and help improve this area!

Cheers,
Rob

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