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Re: setup


On Aug 7, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> 
> a minimal Cygwin install system w/ busybox

Busybox isnât going to be usable in its normal sense without cygwin1.dll to map symlinks to argv[0] so that Busybox can tell how it was called, and thus which function to provide.

But thatâs a side issue, because I donât see why you think you need Busybox in the first place, unless it is to be able to run postinst scripts.  Canât you just say that that setup-*.tar.xz package never has a postinst script, so that all you need to do is un-tar it?

In that sense, setup.exe is already bootstrapped: it has everything within itself to be able to replace itself.

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