On Tue, March 1, 2005 2:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force >> ~/.cpan >> to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of >> mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script. > > Yes, it does sometimes. There used a problem doing "rm" when a mount > directory doesn't exist -- the root directory was erased. I don't have a > spare system available to experiment with it now. > I had this problem when I did "rm -rf ~/something", where "~/something" > was mounted explicitly, but didn't exist. At a guess, if the mount point > doesn't exist, the directory resolves to "/", and that's what is being > erased.
I was thinking more like the perl installer add a .cpan to the skel folder and a 'post user create' file (to be determined how it gets run ;) which does the mount then removes itself. Thing is, it wouldn't help with users which already exist *before* they install perl. A different solution would be necessary for them. Possibly a profile.d script? Anyway, just thoughts :) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/