Pending Packages List, 2003-10-28

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 29 07:18:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:51, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >    Problems: [not a showstopper] there's no need for a postinstall script
> > here. Just add _update-info-dir  to your requires: line in the setup.hint
> > instead. (cygwin-apps-thread.11856)
> 
> That's not what it seems from http://cygwin.com/setup.html.  Quoting the section "Making Packages", the eighth bullet item is:

Yes, and thats correct. The update info hack only works when the user
runs off the web, if the user runs locally, then only the first install
will trigger the update info package - all others will need to call
install info themselves.

Rob

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