Problem installing setup-1.7

[Charles Wilson]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 27 15:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Then when you run setup-1.7.exe you don't /have/ any mounts in the registry 
>> -- so all you'll get in /etc/fstab are the basic default mounts. [*] Later, 
>> when setup-1.7.exe is updated -- so that we don't have to remove all the 
>> 1.5 mount info from the registry before running setup-1.7.exe -- it'll work 
>> better on that initial install, but only for system mounts -> /etc/fstab.  
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean.  The postinstall script
> is supposed to create the mount points according to the user's 1.5
> based system registry mount table. 

Right. And once cygwin-1.7 is released, and *regular* users use 
setup.exe to upgrade an existing installation of cygwin-1.5 to 
cygwin-1.7, that will work fine.

> This is for a replacement of a
> 1.5 with a 1.7 installation, as it's supposed to be at one point.

Exactly.

> The problem is that this doesn't allow a parallel installation for
> now, even if setup-1.7 is working as advertised. 

That's what I was trying to say.

> I should add code
> to the script which replaces all $OLD_CYGWINROOT path components with
> $NEW_CYGWINROOT on the fly to support that.

That would be useful, during the transition.

>> It doesn't attemp to replicate user mounts (for all users? current
>> user? some selected group of 'cygwin' users? Yech!) into
>> /etc/fstab.d/. That's ok, IMO, but when we release 1.7, end-users
>> need to know about that  update quirk.

> /etc/fstab.d/$USER is created and old 1.5 registry user mount points are
> copied to /etc/fstab.d/$USER on the fly when the user starts the shell
> the first time.  That's done by the new /etc/profile.d/user-fstab.c?sh
> scripts in base-cygwin.

"it" == 000-cygwin-post-install.sh.  I didn't know there were /other/ 
components of base-cygwin that /would/ handle that part.

--
Chuck