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Re: Cygwin 1.1: setup of info files is incomplete.


On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:00:39AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:00:10PM -0700, Masterson, Dave wrote:
>> The 'info' command (from Texinfo) looks for "dir" (directory) files to
>> determine what the menu is that should be displayed when invoked.  This file
>> is not created by the installation of Cygwin 1.1.  However, the nature of
>> this "dir file is such that it needs to be updated (pretty much) after every
>> package installation -- it really can't be included in any particular
>> package.  Could "setup" be adjusted to run "install-info" after every
>> package installation?
>
>I agree with the above, but I think that it should be generalized.
>There are postinstall tasks that should be one-shot (i.e., as currently
>implemented in setup) and ones that should be executed every time (e.g.,
>regenerating the info dir files).  The question is how to best integrate
>the support of both one-shot and every time postinstall scripts into DJ's
>setup?

That's one question.

The more important question is "Who's going to do the work?"

cgf

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