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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading Cygwin - postinstall difficulties?
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:30:25 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> This is not under setup's control. Postinstall scripts are written by 
> individual package maintainers. Most of them *are* reexecutable, or, 
> at least, don't do anything that can't be redone. Some, however, 
> modify existing state of the system, either in-place or conditionally 
> on the non-existence of this previous state (i.e., new install). In 
> both of
> these cases, there's a potential for failure, and the scripts will 
> probably not be reexecutable. A list of such scripts might be a useful 
> thing to have in the archives.

What I was saying is that the writers of postinstall scripts should be 
mindful that their scripts are re-runnable. And for the few instances 
where a postinstall script relies on things like the non-existence of a 
previous state that they should perhaps provide a option, say 
-reinstall, that would set the situation as if it was a new install.
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