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Date:	Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:27:23 +0200
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Subject:	Re: setup complains about cygwin-doc package update
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On Jul  5 13:32, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Curious about an error that setup.exe reported today related to upgrading=
=20
> package cygwin-doc to 2.8.1-1, saying:
>=20
> Postinstall script errors
> 	These do not necessarily mean that affected packages will fail to functi=
on
> 	properly, but please check /var/log/setup.log.full and report any proble=
ms.
>=20
> Package: _/cygwin-doc
> 	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2
>=20
> A subsequent setup.exe run with nothing pending gave a different message:
>=20
> Package: _/Unknown package
> 	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2
>=20
> Looking in setup.log.full I see:
>=20
> 2017/07/05 09:13:33 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile =
"/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
> Can't find directory '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Star=
t Menu/Programs/Cygwin'
> 2017/07/05 09:13:34 abnormal exit: exit code=3D2
>=20
> Indeed, there is no Cygwin directory in existing directory=20
> '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs'.
>=20
> Looking at cygwin-doc.sh, it seems that the script is trying to put some =
things in that directory.
>=20
> So, I manually created the directory and reran setup. This time no errors=
 reported,=20
> and the newly created directory contains the following files:
>=20
> $ ls -l
> total 24
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1233 Jul  5 09:30 'API (HTML).lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1041 Jul  5 09:30 'API (PDF).lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1248 Jul  5 09:30  FAQ.lnk
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1224 Jul  5 09:30 'Home Page.lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1242 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (HTML).l=
nk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1050 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (PDF).ln=
k'
> $
>=20
> So, these are handy links to have, I guess, but is it appropriate for
> cygwin-doc.sh to presume that the directory exists? Maybe it should creat=
e it
> rather than simply bail out and complain if it doesn't exist.

In theory, the script should only create the files if the directory
exists.  Brian?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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