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________________________________
> From: jayk123 AT hotmail DOT com
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com; brian AT dessent DOT net; andry AT inbox DOT ru
> Subject: Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:35:51 +0000
> 
>  [B] From: brian@
> 
>  [B] ...I think...and we should just have
>  [B] bash provide /bin/sh directly without the complicated postinstall
>  [B] gymnastics.  There was the objection that the current scheme obstensibly
>  [B] allows for the user to use any shell as /bin/sh, but I question how many
>  [B] people are aware of this let alone desire to take advantage of it.
> 
> [D] From: dave.korn@
>  ...
> [D]  The problem is that no matter whether bash or ash install /bin/sh,
> [D] terminfo is going to be installed first, and that means
> [D] /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh is pretty much doomed to failure.
 
 [J]
 I assume Brian wants bash.tar.bz2 to just have a second copy
 of bash at  bin/sh.exe, or a symlink or hardlink,
 unconditionally overwriting whatever is there.
 Rather than having a postinstall program copy it conditionally.
 
 ?
 
 And that all the extraction happens before any install code runs. ?
 
  - Jay

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