On 2024-02-24 22:38, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
There are 12 tasks never shown ".done" in /etc/postinstall/ (6 .dash and 6
.sh) and therefore repeated at every update.
(Other users' installations might have 12 +/-.)
They are not particularly intrusive (though they can take a while) but nor is
their inclusion or the exclusion of many others
at all obvious, except perhaps for *update* and maybe autorebase.
Not really too bothered about rationale but can an Admin confirm their
necessary presence?
A list of those would be useful unless access to your system is available?
If they start with 0p_... or zp_... they are perpetual pre- or post- postinstall
scripts e.g. all systems should have the following:
0p_000_autorebase.dash
0p_update-info-dir.dash
zp_man-db-update-index.dash
run after all other setup steps have been performed, but either before or after
all postinstall scripts in installed or upgraded packages have been run.
See "setup.exe new postinstall facitilities":
https://cygwin.com/legacy-ml/cygwin-apps/2014-12/msg00148.html
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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