On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:19:44PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >Am 12.08.2010 01:15, schrieb Christopher Faylor: >>Thanks to Jon Turney's recent patch we've discovered that many >>post-install packages were previously failing silently. Now we know >>exactly which packages are failing because people are reporting them to >>the cygwin list. >> >>These need to be fixed and I implore you to make it a priority. >>Otherwise we're doing a disservice to our user community. >> >>I know we all lack tuits but I really hope that all of the affected >>packages will take time to fix their problems. Just look at the cygwin >>mailing list (which you're all monitoring anyway) for errors and, if >>your package has an error, consider rolling a -N+1 release with a fix. > >Oh, and please, no "add 'exit 0'" nonsense at the end of scripts, as >I've just seen fly by on cygwin@ [1] - this will make matters worse and >hide the now-noisy-and-formerly-silent failures more deeply in the >system so that they're even harder to find, report, and fix. > >I also urgently seek those with upload privileges to refuse such >"fixes".
Yes. What he said. Silently "succeeding" is not a fix for this problem. cgf
