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Re: Heads-up: postinstall scripts and PATH (Attn all package maintainers)


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 07:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > This might work, except that a) postinstall scripts on the whole are
> > updated more often and more easily than setup.exe (i.e., this solution
> > won't help people using the version of setup.exe they already have on
> > their computer, so the scripts will still have to be fixed),
>
> Setup has done this the entire time I've been maintainer - I inherited
> it doing it. Igor, you've contributed to setup, I'm surprised you didn't
> look even a little into it.
>
> Rob

Rob,

As I said before, I'm not infallible. :-)
However, the postinstall scripts did fail to run correctly (for some
reason or another), and I just assumed that this was the reason.  Even if
it isn't, the scripts still needs to be fixed, IMO.
	Igor
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