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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:07:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Rich Elberger <elbergr AT smarts DOT com>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rich Elberger wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rick Rankin wrote:
>
> > I ran into a situation I hadn't seen before a few days ago when I used
> > setup to update my Cygwin installation from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. What
> > happened was that there were several packages, in addition to
> > cygwin-1.5.4, that had updates available. Setup downloaded the
> > updates, then uninstalled the old packages, including cygwin-1.5.3.
> > When it went to install the updates, cygwin-1.5.4 was *not* the first
> > package that got installed, so any postinstallion scripts failed with
> > a dialog box from the O/S saying that "Windows cannot find cygwin1.dll
> > in <path list>" until after cygwin itself was updated. After setup
> > installed the cygwin package, the rest of the postinstall scripts ran
> > fine.
> >
> > Is the cygwin package given any special consideration during the
> > install process (e.g., last to be uninstalled, first to be
> > (re)installed), or is this something that's expected to be handled by
> > the dependency list? I've been perusing the setup sources, but I
> > haven't quite figured out the dependency processing, yet. So far, I
> > haven't found anything related via Google searches, either.
>
> There is no dependency work for the postinstalls.
>
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html#postinstall

Umm, actually, the above is incorrect.  I clearly remember rephrasing that
section of the webpage, and the patch seems to have been lost.  I'll
resubmit it.
	Igor
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