From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28689 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2003 18:07:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28676 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2003 18:07:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2003 18:07:04 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8GI73mL019842; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:07:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h8GI73vw019839; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:07:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:16:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Rich Elberger cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup installation order? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20030916174957.2533.qmail@web21405.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01059.txt.bz2 On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rich Elberger wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rick Rankin wrote: > > > I ran into a situation I hadn't seen before a few days ago when I used > > setup to update my Cygwin installation from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. What > > happened was that there were several packages, in addition to > > cygwin-1.5.4, that had updates available. Setup downloaded the > > updates, then uninstalled the old packages, including cygwin-1.5.3. > > When it went to install the updates, cygwin-1.5.4 was *not* the first > > package that got installed, so any postinstallion scripts failed with > > a dialog box from the O/S saying that "Windows cannot find cygwin1.dll > > in " until after cygwin itself was updated. After setup > > installed the cygwin package, the rest of the postinstall scripts ran > > fine. > > > > Is the cygwin package given any special consideration during the > > install process (e.g., last to be uninstalled, first to be > > (re)installed), or is this something that's expected to be handled by > > the dependency list? I've been perusing the setup sources, but I > > haven't quite figured out the dependency processing, yet. So far, I > > haven't found anything related via Google searches, either. > > There is no dependency work for the postinstalls. > > http://cygwin.com/setup.html#postinstall Umm, actually, the above is incorrect. I clearly remember rephrasing that section of the webpage, and the patch seems to have been lost. I'll resubmit it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/