setup complains about cygwin-doc package update

setup complains about cygwin-doc package update

[Nellis, Kenneth]

Curious about an error that setup.exe reported today related to upgrading 
package cygwin-doc to 2.8.1-1, saying:

Postinstall script errors
	These do not necessarily mean that affected packages will fail to function
	properly, but please check /var/log/setup.log.full and report any problems.

Package: _/cygwin-doc
	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2

A subsequent setup.exe run with nothing pending gave a different message:

Package: _/Unknown package
	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2

Looking in setup.log.full I see:

2017/07/05 09:13:33 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
Can't find directory '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin'
2017/07/05 09:13:34 abnormal exit: exit code=2

Indeed, there is no Cygwin directory in existing directory 
'/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs'.

Looking at cygwin-doc.sh, it seems that the script is trying to put some things in that directory.

So, I manually created the directory and reran setup. This time no errors reported, 
and the newly created directory contains the following files:

$ ls -l
total 24
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1233 Jul  5 09:30 'API (HTML).lnk'
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1041 Jul  5 09:30 'API (PDF).lnk'
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1248 Jul  5 09:30  FAQ.lnk
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1224 Jul  5 09:30 'Home Page.lnk'
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1242 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (HTML).lnk'
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1050 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (PDF).lnk'
$

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.

--Ken Nellis

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Re: setup complains about cygwin-doc package update

[Corinna Vinschen]

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On Jul  5 13:32, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Curious about an error that setup.exe reported today related to upgrading 
> package cygwin-doc to 2.8.1-1, saying:
> 
> Postinstall script errors
> 	These do not necessarily mean that affected packages will fail to function
> 	properly, but please check /var/log/setup.log.full and report any problems.
> 
> Package: _/cygwin-doc
> 	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2
> 
> A subsequent setup.exe run with nothing pending gave a different message:
> 
> Package: _/Unknown package
> 	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2
> 
> Looking in setup.log.full I see:
> 
> 2017/07/05 09:13:33 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
> Can't find directory '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin'
> 2017/07/05 09:13:34 abnormal exit: exit code=2
> 
> Indeed, there is no Cygwin directory in existing directory 
> '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs'.
> 
> Looking at cygwin-doc.sh, it seems that the script is trying to put some things in that directory.
> 
> So, I manually created the directory and reran setup. This time no errors reported, 
> and the newly created directory contains the following files:
> 
> $ ls -l
> total 24
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1233 Jul  5 09:30 'API (HTML).lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1041 Jul  5 09:30 'API (PDF).lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1248 Jul  5 09:30  FAQ.lnk
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1224 Jul  5 09:30 'Home Page.lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1242 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (HTML).lnk'
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1050 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (PDF).lnk'
> $
> 
> 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?


Corinna

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Re: setup complains about cygwin-doc package update

[Brian Inglis]

On 2017-07-05 08:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  5 13:32, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> Curious about an error that setup.exe reported today related to upgrading 
>> package cygwin-doc to 2.8.1-1, saying:
>>
>> Postinstall script errors
>> 	These do not necessarily mean that affected packages will fail to function
>> 	properly, but please check /var/log/setup.log.full and report any problems.
>>
>> Package: _/cygwin-doc
>> 	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2
>>
>> A subsequent setup.exe run with nothing pending gave a different message:
>>
>> Package: _/Unknown package
>> 	cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2
>>
>> Looking in setup.log.full I see:
>>
>> 2017/07/05 09:13:33 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
>> Can't find directory '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Cygwin'
>> 2017/07/05 09:13:34 abnormal exit: exit code=2
>>
>> Indeed, there is no Cygwin directory in existing directory 
>> '/proc/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs'.
>>
>> Looking at cygwin-doc.sh, it seems that the script is trying to put some things in that directory.
>>
>> So, I manually created the directory and reran setup. This time no errors reported, 
>> and the newly created directory contains the following files:
>>
>> $ ls -l
>> total 24
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1233 Jul  5 09:30 'API (HTML).lnk'
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1041 Jul  5 09:30 'API (PDF).lnk'
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1248 Jul  5 09:30  FAQ.lnk
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1224 Jul  5 09:30 'Home Page.lnk'
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1242 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (HTML).lnk'
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 knellis Domain Users 1050 Jul  5 09:30 'User Guide (PDF).lnk'
>> $
>>
>> 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.

I am a big fan and hoarder of shortcuts, bookmarks, links, URLs, etc.

> In theory, the script should only create the files if the directory
> exists.  Brian?

Assumption made was that setup would create SM/Programs/Cygwin, but the
postinstall/preremove scripts should check and exit if not there.
Presumably if no shortcuts are desired, that dir is not created?
I can change the scripts to check and fail quietly if not there.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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