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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:03:21 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is setup.exe _supposed_ to delete the cygwin dll before attempting to run shell scripts?
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On Sep 24 12:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >This time I'm keeping a full list of everything that's in my /bin
> >directory.  Next time anything bombs out I'm going to be able to
> >_prove_ setup deleted it.
> 
> I think the cygwin1.dll deletion has been reported before.  Maybe
> there's a problem in the dependency logic.  It seems like setup.exe
> should know that the cygwin package needs to be installed before
> everything else.

...and it should be uninstalled as last package.  Otherwise preremove
scripts are a bit under pressure...

Corinna

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