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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:16:25 -0400
From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo AT msu DOT edu>
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[Discussion on this issue is now taking place where it should have in 
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Igor,

Okay, that explains why I couldn't find the message in cygwin-xfree.  I 
really wish someone would have redirected the question over here... I 
never saw it.

 > FWIW, you can force the order of execution of the XFree86-bin-icons.sh
 > postinstall script by making the package dependent on XFree86-bin and
 > others, but that would most likely defeat the purpose of the package.

Thanks.  I actually did that just now, right before you suggested it. 
However, I didn't know that it would force the order of post-install 
script execution; that is a nice side-effect.  The bin-icons package 
should logically depend on the bin package.  People can manually 
unselect it if they want to.


>>>>>The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy.  It's basically a postinstall
>>>>>script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed
>>>>>on your machine.  The problem is that it tries to create them in the
>>>>>Start Menu for "All Users" without checking whether the current user can
>>>>>write to it.

That's not entirely true.  For example, my account has Administrator 
priveleges on my machine, the script runs fine when I launch it from a 
bash prompt; so file permissions are not an issue.

>>>>>I'm not quite sure why it hangs for you, but you can try
>>>>>runnning that script manually via "bash -x" and seeing where it hangs.

It doesn't hang when you do this.

Something strange is going on here... setup.exe says "Running: No 
Package /etc/postinstal/XFree86-bin-icons".  What is up with the "No 
Package"?  Is that indicating the real problem?

Another thing is that an Uninstall of XFree86-bin-icons also hangs when 
it tries to run the preremove script.  Yet, running the preremove script 
by hand never causes any problems (e.g. bash -x 
/etc/preremove/XFree86-bin-icons.sh).

What gives?

Harold


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