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Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:17:23 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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Subject: Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"
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According to Brian Dessent on 8/9/2008 3:30 PM:
| Dave Korn wrote:
|
|>   The problem is that no matter whether bash or ash install /bin/sh,
|> terminfo is going to be installed first, and that means
|> /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh is pretty much doomed to failure.
|
| And, additionally, no postinstall is run until after all the tarballs
| have been unpacked, so making bash be postinstall-less would indeed fix
| the problem.

It's on my list of things to do, particularly now that newer setup.exe
seems to be more prevalent.  I just haven't uploaded a version of bash
that does it yet (partly because I've been playing with what else bash
should be fixed to do for 1.7.0, but I guess this change can be made even
for the 1.5.25 timeframe).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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