At 12:40 PM 9/16/2003, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote: >On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > >> At 11:37 AM 9/16/2003, Andrew DeFaria you wrote:
<snip> >> > >> >Now the situation is understandable. The question is: Did the >> >postinstall script accomplish what it needed? After I reboot can I be >> >assured that the "failed" postinstall script did enough of what it >> >needed to do? Or should I re-execute (all) postinstall scripts? >> >> At least for now, to be sure that things worked properly, you'd need to >> rerun the postinstall scripts after the new DLL has been put in place. >> Either that or exit all Cygwin processes (including services) and rerun >> setup reinstalling all the packages you just installed. >> >> You're correct that this is not an issue specific to the 1.5.x upgrade >> process. >> >> -- >> Larry Hall > >Larry, > >I'd like to reiterate a warning that even a reinstall might not bring the >system into a stable state if postinstall scripts were only partially >executed. I'm perfectly willing to give examples of situations where this >will be true, but don't want to pollute the list unless there's general >interest. > >Andrew's suggestion about delaying postinstall scripts until reboot sounds >reasonable (or at least as reasonable as my suggestion of letting the user >kill processes and retrying the replacement). The current setup *is* >broken in that regard. > Igor I don't disagree with your statements Igor. I actually sent my response well before yours arrived in my mailbox. I don't know why it took so long for mine to filter through the list. No matter. Anyway, if I had seen your response before I sent mine, I wouldn't have bothered, since yours is a more complete reply. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/