As I have no "sources" for the webpage I cannot create patches. I don't know if this text appears elsewhere...
Please, do a "PTC" analysis on this anyway! Corrections may be necessary, as always - I'm a lazy scribbler. In contrary to others on this list I'm not perfect. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E Reformatted paragraphs, to adhere to <80 chars per line. -- Excerpt from -- http://cygwin.com/setup.html -- Creating a package postinstall script If your package requires certain commands to be executed after the files in the package are installed, include them in a file in the package called /etc/postinstall/package.sh or /etc/postinstall/package.bat. If the file's name ends in ".sh", it is executed with the Cygwin shell; if it ends in ".bat", it is executed with the DOS command interpreter. If it doesn't end with either of these suffixes, it is ignored. After the script has been run it is renamed by appending the suffix ".done" to its previous name, to prevent it from being run again the next time the user runs the setup program. Note that the setup program runs all the postinstall scripts after all desired packages have been installed, that is, it does not run each package's postinstall script immediately after installing that package. Note, furthermore, that the order in which the scripts are run is not guaranteed. Therefore, if your package depends on others which have their own postinstall scripts, you cannot assume in your script that the other packages' scripts have already been run. -- END of excerpt -- http://cygwin.com/setup.html -- -- Addition to be appended here -- Before you create anything that alters things that might be subject to user preference - think it over very thoroughly! Adjust as much as possible to what the user has set as his preference. An example: The Start-menu The user might have reordered his/hers Start-menu in an "advanced" manner, then adding multiple shortcuts to the menu in a way that disobeys "the rules" is just plain irritating. If you still feel that you should add things to the Start-menu, then first check if there is a "Cygwin" folder there. If there is one, then add your stuff in there, using a new folder named after the package you're maintaining. Here is an example of a postinstall script that checks for the existanse of the Cygwin start-menu folder. If it isn't there it does "exit" $ head -15 cygwin-doc-postinstall.sh.done #!/bin/sh # cygwin-doc.sh # requires "mkshortcut" from cygutils # determine if there is a Start Menu "Cygwin" directory, put links in place if so CYGWIN_ASM="$(cygpath -AP)/Cygwin" CYGWIN_SM="$(cygpath -P)/Cygwin" if [ -d "$CYGWIN_ASM" ]; then CYG_USER_FLAGS="-AP" elif [ -d "$CYGWIN_SM" ]; then CYG_USER_FLAGS="-P" else exit 0 fi As you have created a postinstall script, it is strongly urged that you should also consider creating a script that reverses the actions. This is called a preremove script and should be included in the package analogous to the postinstall scripts, just replacing the path with /etc/preremove/package.sh or /etc/preremove/package.bat. -- END of addition -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/