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Re: [HEADSUP] Proposal for change in postinstall script handling (was Re: [RFC] incremental rebase)


> On Nov 19 12:38, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > >> In any case, this is mainly about putting the mechanism in place or
> > >> rather to specify it.  Making it usable would require support from
> > >> cygport and upset/genini.
> > >
> > > Not upset, it seems.  IIUC the stratumification can firmly stay in
> > > setup' s hands with some support from cygport.  Upset wouldn't even
> > > notice it.
> > 
> > >> Using hidden groups (like the non-functional
> > >> _PostInstallLast we already have) would be an obvious way to do that.
> > >
> > > Isn't that moot then?  Stratum z would do it for free...
> > 
> > In both cases the use of the prefix is what decides the stratum.
> > Arguably that could be made explicit in setup.hint instead, but that
> > would require extension of the data format and changes to tools that use
> > the data.  As long as we're manually assigning those strata (or farming
> > this out into cygport) then no such support would be needed indeed.
> > 
> > ANother question: setup is used by other projects it seems.  How do we
> > ensure they either agree with us or are unaffected by this change?
> > 
> > > Makes sense.  And the naming convention?  No chance for collisions with
> > > existing scripts?
> > 
> > The Cygwin Package Search says that no such postinstall scripts
> > currently exist, so I'd say we're GTG with the prefix idea.
> 
> I'd like to have some more input here.  Maintainers, if you have any
> input to this, please follow up.

I'm sorry - I didn't follow the previous discussion and am having trouble
following this.  Could you please restate what's being proposed?


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