Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/03/19:26:00
Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:37, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote:
>> For reasons which are now obscure to me, I had set up an NTFS junction
>> point from /var (c:\cygwin\var) to some other partition. Could have
>> done it with mount, but I didn't.
>>
>> Just today after running setup.exe and getting cygwin-1.5.7-1 and a few
>> other things, I found that /var was now an ordinary directory with
>> the only contents the subdirectory cache (with empty subdirectory man)
>> and the subdirectory log (with setup.log and setup.log.full).
>
> cygcheck isn't useful. The full setup log might be useful, but I rather
> doubt it.
In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains:
2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man
...
rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man
rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache
rmdir C:\cygwin/var
Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I suppose
since there's an empty placeholder which gets removed.
> Short answer is: 'don't do that'.
Reasonably good advice. But it's possible that this should be
considered a bug: uninstalling man shouldn't even try to get rid of var,
perhaps?
Robert
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