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[attention base-files maintainer] copying /bin files to home dir on first run of cygwin.bat
- From: "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:13:08 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: [attention base-files maintainer] copying /bin files to home dir on first run of cygwin.bat
I did a base install of cygwin 1.7 (using setup-1.7.exe),
and the first time I ran cygwin.bat, it gave the following:
====
Copying skeleton files.
These files are for the user to personalise their cygwin experience.
They will never be overwritten nor automatically updated.
bash: cd: /etc/skel: No such file or directory
`./addftinfo.exe' -> `/home/ysth//addftinfo.exe'
`./afmtodit' -> `/home/ysth//afmtodit'
...
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repeated for many files.
Looking into it further, it seems at least this version of
base-files (3.8-2) has a postinstall script that is
expecting something else to have created /etc/skel before
it starts copying files from /etc/defaults/etc/skel there.
This is one possible fix:
$ cat bf.patch
--- etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.orig 2009-02-15
13:50:22.779600000 -0800
+++ etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh 2009-02-15
13:54:16.342800000 -0800
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
fDest=/${f}
if [ ! -e ${fDest} -a ! -L ${fDest} ]; then
/bin/echo "Using the default version of ${fDest} (${fSrc})"
+ /bin/mkdir -p `dirname ${fDest}`
/bin/touch ${fDest}
/bin/cp ${fSrc} ${fDest}
else
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