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 13:58:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is setup.exe _supposed_ to delete the cygwin dll before attempting to run shell scripts? In-Reply-To: <20040924170321.GL12802@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <20040924164839.GJ674@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20040924170321.GL12802@cygbert.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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 This is more likely to be the culprit -- postinstall scripts are run after all the package files were installed. Unfortunately, preremove script dependencies aren't easily computed from regular package dependencies -- this has been discussed on cygwin-apps some time ago. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/