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Re: Check for postinstall script failure in setup?


On Jul  4 11:43, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> In a recent report (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00089.html>)
> on the Cygwin list, I suspect the postinstall script for man silently
> failed, and nobody detected it (well, something was printed to the log,
> but who reads those?).
> 
> Should we introduce a notion of failure for postinstall scripts?  And have
> setup warn if some postinstall scripts failed?  This will require
> postinstall scripts to either "set -e" or use other means to exit on
> error, and having setup check the error code.
> 
> If this idea sounds reasonable, I could work on adding the code to setup.
> Without maintainer cooperation, however, this wouldn't be very useful,
> hence this post.

Sounds like a good plan to me and I guess a lot of postinstall scripts
will already return a non-0 exit code, for a start.


Corinna

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