Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:54:51PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > The problem recently reported by Tim Dierks in > > turns out to be identical to the one investigated in > > > The scr

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:09:39AM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >Thanks, I'll do that. I remember when I tried as a symlink and >something hung setup (I guess setup doesn't handle them ?). setup isn't a cygwin application. symlinks are a cygwin invention. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Thanks, I'll do that. I remember when I tried as a symlink and something hung setup (I guess setup doesn't handle them ?). It wasn't the XFree86-bin-icons issue, which also hung when I reverted the symlink. I'll go through the archives to see what I should do for XFree86-bin-icons since I had to u

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > > Perhaps the setup postinstall scripts should change to using > > bash. Its behavior is correct and will avoid frustrations. > > It'd be nice it I could get rid of it. I have to use > #!/bin/bash

Re: Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Perhaps the setup postinstall scripts should change to using > bash. Its behavior is correct and will avoid frustrations. It'd be nice it I could get rid of it. I have to use #!/bin/bash in my scripts, change rxvt (the X11 version) because it default

Ash woes. [Was: Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues ]

2003-10-06 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
The problem recently reported by Tim Dierks in turns out to be identical to the one investigated in The scripts are executable but ash refuses to execute them. Ash uses various methods

Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues

2003-10-06 Thread Tim Dierks
At 10:12 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote: At 08:24 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote: The tail end of /var/log/setup.full is: 2003/10/05 20:07:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: not found [... elided ...] And, in fact, thos

Re: Installation & Uninstallation issues

2003-10-05 Thread Tim Dierks
At 08:24 PM 10/5/2003, Tim Dierks wrote: The tail end of /var/log/setup.full is: 2003/10/05 20:07:49 running: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh: not found [... elided ...] And, in fact, those scripts are not there: instead, I've go