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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
- From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:42:07 -0600
- Subject: Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0402241406210.13702@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:00:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> cygwin-doc-postinstall.sh: cygpath, mkshortcut, zcat, rm, install-info
> Note: this script also uses bash syntax, but has #!/bin/sh at
> the top. I believe we can safely assume that bash will be present
> on the system by the time postinstall scripts run.
The sad part is that the bash-specific stuff (to delete catman pages if they
exist) wouldn't have worked anyway since the script does't look in the FHS
place anyway.
It's time for a new cygwin-doc anyway, I'll get the postinstall
(and preremove) scripts fixed and get it out the door.