Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> In that vein, can anyone think of other improvements to cygcheck? >> For instance, maybe it could debug common /etc/passwd or /etc/group >> problems. Or, maybe it could detect a NetworkSimplicity installation >> and optionally uninstall it. > > I think that a separate 'cygclean' or 'preinstall checker' should > exist to > clean bad mounts etc. > > It could go into cygcheck but I feel (and can't articulate clearly > just yet) > that that would be less clear to newbies.
But newbies wouldn't know to run it. Besides, it needs to be run *before* setup.exe - so why not just add the relevant code to setup.exe? All the mount handling code is already there, so it should be fairly simple. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/