> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 24 September 2004 18:59
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Sep 24 12:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > > >This time I'm keeping a full list of everything that's in my /bin
> > > >directory. Next time anything bombs out I'm going to be able to
> > > >_prove_ setup deleted it.
> > >
> > > I think the cygwin1.dll deletion has been reported before. Maybe
> > > there's a problem in the dependency logic. It seems like
> setup.exe
> > > should know that the cygwin package needs to be installed before
> > > everything else.
> >
> > ...and it should be uninstalled as last package. Otherwise
> preremove
> > scripts are a bit under pressure...
> >
> > Corinna
>
> This is more likely to be the culprit -- postinstall scripts
> are run after
> all the package files were installed. Unfortunately, preremove script
> dependencies aren't easily computed from regular package
> dependencies --
> this has been discussed on cygwin-apps some time ago.
Well, it gets odder. After manually restoring the cygwin and libiconv-2
dlls, and trying it again, it ran to completion without complaints and set
everything back up correctly for me. How odd. Maybe there's an
uninitialized variable in there somewhere.
cheers,
DaveK
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