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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:06:28 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Gary Nielson <gary AT garynielson DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin-Perl upgrade and modules
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Igor wrote:

>> The autobundle command in a CPAN shell is meant to create a list of
>> packages which you have installed (run before unistalling), after update
>> you may simply run `install autobundle_$date` in the CPAN shell, this
>> pulls all listed modules and tries to install it.
>> 
>> 
>> Gerrit

> Gerrit,

> Would it make sense to always run the autobundle CPAN command in the perl
> preremove script?  This way, the list will be available for the 
> postinstall script or a (recently proposed) migration assistance script to
> do what it will.
>         Igor

No, I think CPAN is interactive and it may fail.  E.g. when you start
setup.exe as user A, which is your Cygwin HOME path then?  It may be
needed to create this path additional to create files when you want to
uninstall perl, oh yeah, this was just the first point which came to my
mind when I think about it.  I don't want to say that it is not possible
to do this, you may write such a preremove script, however I think perl
users are programmers anyway and may well take care of their own.  Maybe
it is worth to have it as a standalone package though?


Gerrit
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