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Re: setup v2.573.2.3: Postinstall: "abnormal exit: exit code=126"


On Aug  9 18:17, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Brian Dessent on 8/9/2008 3:30 PM:
> | Dave Korn wrote:
> |
> |>   The problem is that no matter whether bash or ash install /bin/sh,
> |> terminfo is going to be installed first, and that means
> |> /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh is pretty much doomed to failure.
> |
> | And, additionally, no postinstall is run until after all the tarballs
> | have been unpacked, so making bash be postinstall-less would indeed fix
> | the problem.
>
> It's on my list of things to do, particularly now that newer setup.exe
> seems to be more prevalent.  I just haven't uploaded a version of bash
> that does it yet (partly because I've been playing with what else bash
> should be fixed to do for 1.7.0, but I guess this change can be made even
> for the 1.5.25 timeframe).

Means, I can remove the ash postinstall script as well, right?


Corinna

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