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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:00:39 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: "Masterson, Dave" <dmasters AT rational DOT com>
Cc: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.1: setup of info files is incomplete.
Message-ID: <20001030090039.D1019@dothill.com>
References: <C322F78942E6D311AF8800D0B73C4FD8830DA4 AT CUPEX3 DOT rational DOT com>
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In-Reply-To: <C322F78942E6D311AF8800D0B73C4FD8830DA4@CUPEX3.rational.com>; from dmasters@rational.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:00:10PM -0700
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:00:10PM -0700, Masterson, Dave wrote:
> The 'info' command (from Texinfo) looks for "dir" (directory) files to
> determine what the menu is that should be displayed when invoked.  This file
> is not created by the installation of Cygwin 1.1.  However, the nature of
> this "dir file is such that it needs to be updated (pretty much) after every
> package installation -- it really can't be included in any particular
> package.  Could "setup" be adjusted to run "install-info" after every
> package installation?

I agree with the above, but I think that it should be generalized.
There are postinstall tasks that should be one-shot (i.e., as currently
implemented in setup) and ones that should be executed every time (e.g.,
regenerating the info dir files).  The question is how to best integrate
the support of both one-shot and every time postinstall scripts into DJ's
setup?

Thanks,
Jason

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