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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.25-17
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According to Igor Peshansky on 10/19/2007 7:29 AM:
>> Why not create a stand-alone package in the base category which
>> consists of just the postinstall script?
>
> I could, but the issue is more basic than where the script lives. Right
> now Cygwin populates the /dev directory as a virtual directory within the
> DLL. The script I'm talking about will make /dev a real directory, and
> the only thing Cygwin will deal with is devices.
>
> What the transition would entail is not clear to me.
But the bash postinstall script already creates /dev as a real directory,
as of my release announcement; it just isn't very populated. I think
making the script its own package in base, then making bash depend on that
package, would be worthwhile.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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