Hi Alan Bear in mind that some of the mount points might include Cygwin packages. For instance my /usr/X11R6 is mounted from a separate partition for space reasons. So it couldn't be unmounted and still be updated.
Cheers Don Sharp Alan Miles wrote: > > Rob, > > Sorry it has been a looong week ... with quite a number of looong weeks > ahead, > and I misinterpreted your response. > > Anyway, I appreciate your responses. I am going to try a preremove script. I > have just checked http://cygwin.com/setup.html > to see if there is any online info about how these work, but I couldn't see > any. > > Anyway with the preremove script, I am going to try an unmount first of any > specific mounted dir's prior to the removal of the package. > > I am aware (as I subscribe to cygwin-apps) that there is allot of work being > done on setup.exe and cygwin dll (1.5.1) and not being familiar with the > program would take allot of work to get up to speed. > > However, I would be more than willing to share my results of the preremove > script, if the unmounting works. > > Alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: August 1, 2003 17:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:45, Alan Miles wrote: > > Rob, > > > > Thanks for the message. > > > > However, my "packages" did NOT create these directories - I just wish to > > mount them, therefore setup should not be deleting them. For example, > > I understand that. Which part of my email suggested I did not understand > the problem? > > It's known. The cause it predictable. We could do better - hey, you're > welcome to join in the development and help improve this area! > > Cheers, > Rob > > -- > GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. > --- > > -- > 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/ -- 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/
