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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:26:07 -0400
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Subject: Re: new setup.exe in cvs!
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In-Reply-To: <200007132058.QAA26680@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:58:09PM -0400

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:58:09PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:35:09PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> >I've checked in a patch to setup that moves the mkgroup/mkpasswd stuff
>> >into /etc/postinstall/*.sh, and added support to /etc/profile to run -
>> >once - any script found as /etc/postinstall/*.sh.  I also only do the
>> >mkgroup/mkpasswd stuff if the install happens on NT.
>> 
>> I still don't understand why you'd put this burden on bash.  If things
>> need to be setup shouldn't setup be doing the setup?
>
>OK, this is where it's at now:
>
>* Setup will look for /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and create its own
>  postinstall/*.bat to create whatever's missing.
>
>* setup will look for /etc/postinstall/*.sh, and run each with
>  whatever shell it can find (sh, else bash), if any shell can be
>  found at all.  These scripts are renamed to <script>.done once
>  they've been run (so they won't run again, yet you can audit them).
>
>* Same for /etc/postinstall/*.bat, with cmd.exe (NT) or command.com
>  (others).
>
>This is all done at the end of setup, so I took the extra code out of
>/etc/profile.  I left in the /etc/profile.d/*.sh code, as some
>packages may provide those for per-user configurations.

Sounds good.

cgf