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RE: cygcheck improvements
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:03:19 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: cygcheck improvements
- References: <SERRANOwAeRaNgEpTX5000000cf@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
>
> Hey, I had another idea. It should definitely scan /etc/postinstall
> and report any scripts that failed to complete (i.e. don't end with
> '.done').
Sigh, this would imply that (a) postinstall scripts produce valuable exit
codes (or are run with "set -e", so that they bail out at first sign of
trouble), and that (b) setup doesn't rename scripts that didn't complete
normally to "*.done". Neither is true at the moment. PTC, of course.
Igor
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