New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 15 14:00:00 GMT 2008
On Aug 15 06:45, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > What I still don't get is that, in my local install, the update-info-dir,
> > coreutils, and terminfo postinstall scripts ran before the bash postinstall
> > script, even though all of them list bash as requirement. Any idea?
>
> It's a circular dependency -- _update-info-dir and bash both list each
> other as requirements. In such a situation with loops it's impossible
> to give a topological ordering that satisfies both constraints, so it
> comes down to chance (or rather the order that things are evaluated) as
> to which goes first. It looks like _update-info-dir happens to get to
> the top.
I don't see _update-info-dir in the bash requires.
However, when looking through the dependencies, I see more problems.
cygwin requires base-passwd
base-passwd requires bash
bash requires cygwin
We really need a strategy to fix the dependencies so that postinstall
scripts of crucial packages run first. And base-cygwin should run
before every other package.
Any chance we can discuss this on IRC (freenode: #cygwin-developers)?
Corinna
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