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bash postinstall (Was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-11)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: bash postinstall (Was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-11)
- References: <cygwin.42EED35C.7090807@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:
> [snip]
> NOTICE:
> =======
> There is a known inherent limitation in the current version of
> setup.exe; hopefully it will be fixed before the next version is
> released. The problem is that there is no clean way to upgrade /bin/sh,
> because setup.exe tries to run the bash postinstall script with the
> wrong shell. For now, if you want /bin/sh and /bin/bash to be the same
> version, you will manually need to open any shell except /bin/sh, and
> run 'cp /bin/bash /bin/sh'.
Heh, I just remembered that setup.exe can also run postinstall batch
files. Sure, they should be used sparingly, but this seems like a perfect
use for one.
Igor
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