[PATCH] inform user if any postinstall script failed to run
Christopher Faylor
cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat Aug 28 16:40:00 GMT 2010
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 01:30:54PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>On 27/08/2010 19:33, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:15:38PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> On 29/07/2010 17:28, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> On 28/07/2010 15:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:25:17PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>>>> Anyhow, here's another attempt, which unfortunately changes rather more than I
>>>>>> wanted to. It adds a new page, which is displayed if any script failed, and
>>>>>> reports which packages and scripts failed.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is great. Please check in (with a ChangeLog of course).
>>>
>>> Due to the way I tested this change, I'd failed to notice that when a package
>>> is installed with a failing postinstall script, this will list the failing
>>> script twice, once with the package name and once as 'no package'.
>>>
>>> Attached is a patch to remedy that.
>>
>> Do we realy need a separate for loop for this? Couldn't we just piggy
>> back on the previous for loop?
>
>Sure. I'm not sure if it's any more elegant, though :-)
Yow. No, it isn't. I didn't think you'd need to modify RunScript to
deal with the behavior.
So, nevermind. The previous solution looks simpler. Please go ahead
with that one.
cgf
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