Re: postinstall scripts don't run when installing onto samba share.

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:01PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:47:16AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't understand why the execute bits would not be set.
> > >
> > > Remote shares are assumed to be non-executable by default for speed
> > > considerations.
> > >
> > > You can fix this by mounting the share with the -x option:
> > >
> > > mount -x -f //foo/bar /bar
> > >
> > > Mounting the share in that manner will cause cygwin (and setup
> > > postinstall scripts) to consider everything in /bar to be consdired
> > > executable.  It might be better to mount any specific directories that
> > > you know will contain executable content with -x:
> > >
> > > mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/bin /bin
> > > mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/sbin /sbin
> > > mount -x -f //foo/c/cygwin/usr/sbin /usr/sbin
> >
> > How do you tell this to setup.exe on a fresh install?
>
> AFAIK, you can't.  Sorry.

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=547

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