From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package "python" removed from default package selection
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:44:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5bk0szz4ax.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b4df701-8548-91e6-e7ef-48def0b70489@gmail.com> (Marco Atzeri via Cygwin's message of "Wed\, 30 Dec 2020 12\:39\:50 +0100")
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin writes:
> strange, python27-2.7.18-2 postinstall script should have set
> /usr/bin/python.
Neither python27-2.7.18-1 or -2 have any postinstall script.
The change from -1 to -2 that causes python as such to disappear (which
I can confirm) is the loss of welded-in links:
> tar -tvf python2-2.7.18-1.tar.xz
lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-05-23 11:05 usr/bin/pydoc -> pydoc2.7
lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-05-23 11:05 usr/bin/pydoc2 -> pydoc2.7
lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-05-23 11:05 usr/bin/python -> python2.7.exe
lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-05-23 11:05 usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7.exe
-rw-rw-r-- Marco/Kein 45 2020-05-23 11:05 usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
-rw-rw-r-- Marco/Kein 46 2020-05-23 11:05 usr/share/man/man1/python2.1.gz
> tar -tvf python2-2..tar.xz
lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-12-28 08:57 usr/bin/pydoc2 -> pydoc2.7
lrwxrwxrwx Marco/Kein 0 2020-12-28 08:57 usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7.exe
-rw-rw-r-- Marco/Kein 46 2020-12-28 08:57 usr/share/man/man1/python2.1.gz
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[not found] <20474c54-4367-faf2-c376-45b052c766cb.ref@yahoo.de>
2020-12-30 9:27 ` Michael Soegtrop
2020-12-30 9:38 ` Michael Soegtrop
2020-12-30 11:39 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-12-30 15:44 ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
[not found] ` <39e2d355-8fb3-484e-5989-36c4efe8354b@Michael-Soegtrop.de>
[not found] ` <a1da8331-8784-37b7-b5da-19cd1fc9e6c7@yahoo.de>
2020-12-30 17:56 ` Marco Atzeri
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