On Tue, 31 May 2005, stephen_powell wrote: > Tonight I ran setup.exe with a month or so worth of updates. > > This is an extract from the log:
You're missing a very important part of the log: i.e., the first line which tells you the version of setup you're running. > [...] > 2005/05/31 18:53:46 Uninstalling cygwin > [...] > unlink e:\cygwin/bin//cygwin1.dll > [...] > 2005/05/31 18:54:19 Uninstalling man > 2005/05/31 18:54:19 running: e:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/preremove/man.sh > [...] > As you can see cygwin1.dll was deleted at 18:53, then at 18:54 the > preremove script for man ran which failed with cygwin1.dll not found. AFAICS, the latest setup release won't suffer from this particular problem (<http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.497-alpha.exe>). There may still be issues with preremove script ordering in the future, but all of the packages in the current distribution should be ok. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
