Re: Some repeated tasks at every update
>> A list of those would be useful unless access to your system is available? Thank you Brian. For info my very reduced but entirely adequate Cygwin installation (to my purposes) is driven by setup-x86_64 -P ImageMagick,R,autoconf,automake,bash-completion,bc,binutils,bison,byacc, coreutils,cpio,csih,cygutils,cygutils-extra,diffutils,dos2unix,e2fsprogs,fdupes,file, findutils,flex, gcc,gcc-core,gcc-g++,gnuplot-X11,gv,hexedit,joe,libRmath-devel,libX11-devel, libheif-devel,libheif-tool,libncurses-devel,libreadline-devel,libsqlite3-devel,libusb-devel, lua,lua-devel,make,mintty,mkisofs,moreutils,mysql,nano,ncurses,patchutils,python,sqlite3, tcl-tix,tcl-tk-devel,texlive-collection-latex,tree,util-linux,xinit,xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75, xorg-x11-fonts-dpi100,xpdf (sorry for the length) (and some of these are probably carried by Base or setup-defined dependencies) and as a consequence my 12 persistent updates in /etc/postinstall/ are zp_hicolor-icon-theme.sh zp_fontconfig_dtd.dash zp_adwaita-icon-theme.sh 0p_000_autorebase.dash zp_glib2.0.sh zp_desktop-file-utils.sh zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh zp_shared-mime-info.sh zp_man-db-update-index.dash 0p_texlive_prep.dash zp_texlive_finish.dash 0p_update-info-dir.dash The requirements adwaita and texlive are the most time-consuming (and perplexing!). Fergus -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Some repeated tasks at every update
On 2024-02-24 22:38, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: There are 12 tasks never shown ".done" in /etc/postinstall/ (6 .dash and 6 .sh) and therefore repeated at every update. (Other users' installations might have 12 +/-.) They are not particularly intrusive (though they can take a while) but nor is their inclusion or the exclusion of many others at all obvious, except perhaps for *update* and maybe autorebase. Not really too bothered about rationale but can an Admin confirm their necessary presence? A list of those would be useful unless access to your system is available? If they start with 0p_... or zp_... they are perpetual pre- or post- postinstall scripts e.g. all systems should have the following: 0p_000_autorebase.dash 0p_update-info-dir.dash zp_man-db-update-index.dash run after all other setup steps have been performed, but either before or after all postinstall scripts in installed or upgraded packages have been run. See "setup.exe new postinstall facitilities": https://cygwin.com/legacy-ml/cygwin-apps/2014-12/msg00148.html -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Some repeated tasks at every update
There are 12 tasks never shown ".done" in /etc/postinstall/ (6 .dash and 6 .sh) and therefore repeated at every update. (Other users' installations might have 12 +/-.) They are not particularly intrusive (though they can take a while) but nor is their inclusion or the exclusion of many others at all obvious, except perhaps for *update* and maybe autorebase. Not really too bothered about rationale but can an Admin confirm their necessary presence? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
