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Date: 15 Nov 2001 22:10:03 -0500
Message-ID: <20011116031003.11587.qmail@lizard.curl.com>
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com>
To: cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu
CC: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
In-reply-to: <3BF482E0.5040407@ece.gatech.edu> (message from Charles Wilson on
	Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:07:12 -0500)
Subject: Re: "post-install scripts"?
References: <20011116025247 DOT 11470 DOT qmail AT lizard DOT curl DOT com> <3BF482E0 DOT 5040407 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>

>  Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:07:12 -0500
>  From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
>  
>  Yep.  If the package contains a file /etc/postinstall/foo then that file 
>  will be executed after installation, and then renamed to foo.done 
>  afterwards.  (All *.done files are ignored).

Ah.  Is this documented anywhere on the Web site?  I don't see it
anywhere in <URL:http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html>, which would seem
like a logical place for it.

If whoever owns this page agrees that this would be a logical place,
I'll volunteer to write the text to document the functionality.  Let
me know.

  jik