postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Mon Nov 15 11:50:00 GMT 2004


Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:01PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>>On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>>>
>>>>I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set.
>>>
>>>Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed
>>>considerations.
>>>
>>>You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option:
>>>
>>>mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar
>>>
>>>Mounting the share in that manner will cause cygwin (and setup
>>>postinstall scripts) to consider everything in /bar to be consdired
>>>executable.  It might be better to mount any specific directories that
>>>you know will contain executable content with -x:
>>>
>>>mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/bin /bin
>>>mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/sbin /sbin
>>>mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/usr/sbin /usr/sbin
>>
>>How do you tell this to setup.exe on a fresh install?
> 
> AFAIK, you can't.  Sorry.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=547

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