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Date: | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:07:12 -0500 |
From: | Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
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To: | Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: "post-install scripts"? |
References: | <20011116025247 DOT 11470 DOT qmail AT lizard DOT curl DOT com> |
Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I see several references in <URL:http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html> to > post-install scripts for packages, and there have been several > recent references here to such scripts as well. I'm unclear about > what this means in the context of Cygwin. I know that in a RedHat > RPM, for example, the post-install script is run automatically after > the package is installed. Is the same thing true here, i.e., is there > some way to put a script into a Cygwin package that will be run > automatically after the package is installed? Yep. If the package contains a file /etc/postinstall/foo then that file will be executed after installation, and then renamed to foo.done afterwards. (All *.done files are ignored). > Or is what is being > discussed here a script that the user needs to run by hand? Nope. --Chuck
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