NOTICE for all package maintainers with faulty post-install scripts

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 12 14:28:00 GMT 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:19:44PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
>Am 12.08.2010 01:15, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>>Thanks to Jon Turney's recent patch we've discovered that many
>>post-install packages were previously failing silently.  Now we know
>>exactly which packages are failing because people are reporting them to
>>the cygwin list.
>>
>>These need to be fixed and I implore you to make it a priority.
>>Otherwise we're doing a disservice to our user community.
>>
>>I know we all lack tuits but I really hope that all of the affected
>>packages will take time to fix their problems.  Just look at the cygwin
>>mailing list (which you're all monitoring anyway) for errors and, if
>>your package has an error, consider rolling a -N+1 release with a fix.
>
>Oh, and please, no "add 'exit 0'" nonsense at the end of scripts, as
>I've just seen fly by on cygwin@ [1] - this will make matters worse and
>hide the now-noisy-and-formerly-silent failures more deeply in the
>system so that they're even harder to find, report, and fix.
>
>I also urgently seek those with upload privileges to refuse such
>"fixes".

Yes.  What he said.  Silently "succeeding" is not a fix for this
problem.

cgf



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