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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:03:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: cygcheck improvements
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
>
>   Hey, I had another idea.  It should definitely scan /etc/postinstall
> and report any scripts that failed to complete (i.e. don't end with
> '.done').

Sigh, this would imply that (a) postinstall scripts produce valuable exit
codes (or are run with "set -e", so that they bail out at first sign of
trouble), and that (b) setup doesn't rename scripts that didn't complete
normally to "*.done".  Neither is true at the moment.  PTC, of course.
	Igor
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