From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 82643 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2018 12:20:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 82420 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2018 12:20:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=penny, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:20:15 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id w2NCKDwB027274 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:20:13 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.15] (mta-68-175-129-7.twcny.rr.com [68.175.129.7] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id w2NCKC0X028942 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:20:12 -0400 Subject: Re: texlive-collection-basic requires Perl to be removed To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5ab46201.1c69fb81.cf3e2.269f@mx.google.com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <7b74d6df-abec-839b-fc70-5c7f1bcb9321@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:00:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5ab46201.1c69fb81.cf3e2.269f@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00375.txt.bz2 On 3/22/2018 10:10 PM, Steven Penny wrote: > This package contains this file: > >    /etc/preremove/texlive-collection-basic.sh > > which in turn calls: > >    /usr/libexec/update_tlpdb > > which is a Perl script. I understand that "texlive-collection-basic" > requires > "perl_base", but if a user removed Perl first then uninstallation of > texlive > would fail. Perhaps "update_tlpdb" could be rewritten as a shell script. Failure of a preremove script doesn't cause uninstallation to fail. In any case, update_tlpdb is the tip of the iceberg. The preremove script also calls (indirectly) the Perl scripts /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/updmap.pl and /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple