Thank you very much Andrew! It was very helpful. Thank you for all your help :)
Best regards, Rui On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Schulman <schulman.and...@epa.gov> wrote: >> >> > Hello all, I'm new to this and I successfully build a package with >> >> > cygport. My problem is that, I would like to install it in order to >> >> > test if the package was successfully built. Is there anyway to do >> >> > that? >> >> >> >> https://cygwin.com/package-server.html >> > >> > I usually take the simpler approach of just unpacking the package archive >> > into the root filesystem: >> > >> > tar -C/ -Jxf $package-$version.tar.xz >> > >> > This doesn't run pre-remove or post-install scripts, but it puts the files >> > in place so you can test them. >> >> @Andrew: Is there a way to run the scripts manually? > > Sure, you can run them manually. They're unpacked into > /etc/preremove/$package.sh and /etc/postinstall/$package.sh. > > For the preremove script, I guess you should run it before unpacking the > archive. You can find it in the package build directory in > inst/etc/preremove. > > I'm quite lazy and don't bother doing this, but if the preremove or > postinstall scripts are doing something important, you should do it. > > Andrew > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >
