Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:42:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT connect DOT to>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called
In-Reply-To:	<clu290$ecr$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.4.61.0410291638120.14835@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
References:	<1098655354 DOT 9421 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com> <200410250937 DOT 34058 DOT d_baron AT 012 DOT net DOT il> <clidg8$s21$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <417CBF56 DOT E5BD31C0 AT dessent DOT net> <clikgs$eq6$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0410250916210 DOT 28948 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <clj0b6$lab$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0410251147450 DOT 16595 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <clj961$je1$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0410251307490 DOT 16595 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <clknka$4rq$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0410261333000 DOT 20919 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <clqn4f$ck2$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0410281021110 DOT 8902 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <clu290$ecr$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org>
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Scanned-By:	MIMEDefang 2.39

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> [snip]
> > > It seems that I got rid of problem "bash: kpsexpand: command not found".
> >
> > Great.  So it was simply a missing dependency problem.
>
> I don't understand how the problem has been resolved.

Some script inserted by lilypond into the login script path (presumably
/etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh) contained an invocation of kpsexpand.
Since kpsexpand is part of the tetex-bin package, installing tetex-bin got
rid of the "not found" message.

> > > However,
> > > $ find /etc/postinstall -name \*.done | sed 's/\.done$//' | xargs cygcheck -f | uniq > postinstall.txt  // Attached
> > > postinstall.txt  contains a lot of files. Is it correct?
> >
> > Sure it is.  The above command simply lists all the packages installed on
> > your machine that have postinstall scripts -- nothing wrong with having
> > them.  The reason I asked you to get this information initially was that
> > because of your screwed up mounts the postinstall scripts may not have run
> > properly, and reinstalling the packages was one way of getting them to
> > re-run, so this showed which packages to reinstall.
> [snip]
>
> What do the postinstall scripts do?

They do post-installation fix-up of package files (generate configuration,
conditionally add symlinks, do installation-specific stuff).

> Who (and when) invokes them?

setup.exe, after installing all the packages.

There are also preremove scripts that are run before the corresponding
packages are removed.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -