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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Is setup.exe _supposed_ to delete the cygwin dll before attempting to run shell scripts?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:12:35 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 24 September 2004 18:59

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> This is more likely to be the culprit -- postinstall scripts 
> are run after
> all the package files were installed.  Unfortunately, preremove script
> dependencies aren't easily computed from regular package 
> dependencies --
> this has been discussed on cygwin-apps some time ago.


  Well, it gets odder.  After manually restoring the cygwin and libiconv-2
dlls, and trying it again, it ran to completion without complaints and set
everything back up correctly for me.  How odd.  Maybe there's an
uninitialized variable in there somewhere. 

    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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