On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Steve Kelem wrote:
> I'm trying to update to the latest cygwin (1.5.5-1). Setup install a lot
> of things, said I had to reboot, and then proceeded with the postinstall
> step.
> Setup is stuck, with the window saying:
> Progress
> This page displays the progress of the download or installation.
> RUnning...
> No package
> /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh
This is a known bug (as a search of the recent archives would have shown).
People are investigating. As a short term workaround, you can "mv
/etc/postinstal/XFree86-bin-icons.sh{,.done}" and rerun setup.
> When I run that file manually, it completes.
>
> Also, there are a LOT of files in /etc/postinstall. Can they be
> deleted? Should they be deleted automatically?
>
> Steve Kelem
They could be, but why? Besides, they don't take up much space (I think
the total is about 100k, except for the gcc-mingw tarball). So don't
worry about them...
Igor
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