Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:03:21 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is setup.exe _supposed_ to delete the cygwin dll before attempting to run shell scripts? Message-ID: <20040924170321.GL12802@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040924164839.GJ674@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040924164839.GJ674@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Sep 24 12:48, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >This time I'm keeping a full list of everything that's in my /bin > >directory. Next time anything bombs out I'm going to be able to > >_prove_ setup deleted it. > > I think the cygwin1.dll deletion has been reported before. Maybe > there's a problem in the dependency logic. It seems like setup.exe > should know that the cygwin package needs to be installed before > everything else. ...and it should be uninstalled as last package. Otherwise preremove scripts are a bit under pressure... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/