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Re: astksh review
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Joe Buehler <jbuehler at hekimian dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: astksh review
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Joe Buehler wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > This also relates to an issue that I wanted to raise earlier: when doing a
> > search for files at <http://cygwin.com/packages/>, those files that are
> > created by postinstall scripts (e.g., symlinks) will not show up in the
> > listing.
> > So, it might be a good idea to keep a manifest of files that would be
> > potentially created by postinstall scripts, and to remove those files when
> > the package is removed. It's possible that setup will have a separate
> > mechanism for tracking this. Frankly, I don't have a concrete suggestion
> > on how to implement this, but thought I'd at least get this into the
> > archives and make people aware of the issues.
>
> A change to Cygwin to log file creations (and whatever else) when requested
> by setup.exe?
Maybe just run all postinstall scripts with "set -x", and parse the
output? At least initially...
Igor
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