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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 7/7/2005 8:21 PM: >>coreutils already requires libintl and libiconv since 5.2.1 days, so most >>useful actions in a postinstall script have already depended on having >>libraries available as part of Base. Based on several months of no >>complaints, I think we can discount the theoretical problems of this scenario. > > Postinstall scripts almost universally have /bin/sh in the shebang, and > so were using ash regardless of which bash was installed. The recent > replacement of /bin/sh with bash means that prior to now we had no > experience in this area. Except that even the /bin/sh postinstalls often did mv, cp, or some other action involving one of the coreutils. It's hard to do much of anything without using the coreutils, which have depended on iconv and intl since their 5.2.1 days. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzecl84KuGfSFAYARAkVEAJwJohzcIOEcEVJ1cPuKwSG1pHXD7wCeJl5C 0K/KUiYy6gOyqsjlNPg78GI= =RSRh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
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