Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Well, I was thinking of /etc/postinstall or /etc/preremove as the location for these files anyway... Frankly, I didn't think of checking the scripts themselves - this might work just as well, and eliminates the need for extra files.
Heh heh... my laziness comes in handy.
> The only thing is that this constrains the package names for
X fonts, so if a new one is added, its package name will either have to follow the same pattern or be added to the lists in all the other packages, whereas with the separate files, we control the names...
I don't think there has been a new font package in over 5 years, or possibly longer. In any case, there will not be a new font package added within a major release, only between major releases, so this should be a non-issue. When a major release is made the font packages all get replaced, so we could freshen the scripts at that point if need be.
I think for setup to detect when a mount is stale would be a good idea anyway. Currently, AFAIK, setup doesn't have a notion of "failing to install a package" with subsequent reinstall, but if it ever does, this would be the right way to handle the situation.
Cool, although IANACSD (I am not a Cygiwn setup developer), so that is about as far as I am going to go with the idea :)
Harold
I am, and I'll look into this at some point (certainly the detection part).
Excellent. Thanks for your input Igor, I appreciate it.
Harold
