Am 12.08.2010 01:15, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > Thanks to Jon Turney's recent patch we've discovered that many > post-install packages were previously failing silently. Now we know > exactly which packages are failing because people are reporting them > to the cygwin list. > > These need to be fixed and I implore you to make it a priority. > Otherwise we're doing a disservice to our user community. > > I know we all lack tuits but I really hope that all of the affected > packages will take time to fix their problems. Just look at the cygwin > mailing list (which you're all monitoring anyway) for errors and, if > your package has an error, consider rolling a -N+1 release with a fix.
Oh, and please, no "add 'exit 0'" nonsense at the end of scripts, as I've just seen fly by on cygwin@ [1] - this will make matters worse and hide the now-noisy-and-formerly-silent failures more deeply in the system so that they're even harder to find, report, and fix. I also urgently seek those with upload privileges to refuse such "fixes". _____ [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00291.html and references -- Matthias Andree
