setup complains about cygwin-doc package update
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Jul 5 17:44:00 GMT 2017
On 7/5/2017 1:27 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 5 11:20, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2017-07-05 08:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 5 13:32, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>>>> So, these are handy links to have, I guess, but is it appropriate for
>>>> cygwin-doc.sh to presume that the directory exists? Maybe it should create it
>>>> rather than simply bail out and complain if it doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> In theory, the script should only create the files if the directory
>>> exists. Brian?
>>
>> Okay - assumed the directory would always be created by setup -
>> presumably not true - but do not check that assumption in pi, although
>> thought about it -
>
> User's can decline creating shortcuts in setup.
>
>> should I check and skip creating shortcuts, rather than create dir and
>> shorcuts? Should I also check and skip rm in prerm? And provide
>> patches?
>
> Skipping goes hand in hand with the fact that the user declined the
> Start Menu shortcut creation.
The script already does check and skip. The only issue is that it skips
by calling 'exit 2' instead of 'exit 0', which is what led to the
original post.
Ken
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