On Aug 20 11:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:46:30PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 20 10:39, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:57:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> >I removed all dependencies from release-2/base-passwd except for > >> >base-cygwin a couple of days ago. Hopefully we get to the point > >> >where the base packages' postinstalls run first. > >> > >> Keeping a base-dependency in cygwin would make setup want to run base-* > >> before cygwin, though. Cygwin doesn't *really* depend on these packages > >> (it doesn't need them to run) so I don't think they should be a > >> dependency. > > > >That's the whole idea. Cygwin itself has no postinstall scripts, but > >the base-* scripts should run first. That's why the dependencies make > >sense. What else packages should depend on the base-* packages to > >accomplish this? > > I thought the whole point was to install cygwin first. How can you run base > packages first in a new install when there is no cygwin1.dll?
The installation order doesn't matter. Only the order in which scripts run matters. And I don't see another way how to make sure that the base-* scripts always run first. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat