On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Steve Munson wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:32:08 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > I like the idea of it at least saving mounts. And the paths should work > > (note the "bin"). :) > > The only thing I would change is to save the state of the mounts within > the uninstall script (just before uninstalling), rather than the state > at install time when /etc/postinstall/gen-uninst.sh was run. > > I also added a warning at the beginning, since this performs such a > drastic operation, even though the UN*X philosophy is to do what the > user says, no matter what, as in "rm * .o": > > ------ BEGIN gen-uninst.sh ------ > #!/bin/sh > CYGDIR="`/bin/cygpath -aw /`" > cat > /uninstall.bat <<EOF > @echo Warning! This will remove all of Cygwin! > @echo Use Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break now to abort. Any other key will continue. > @pause > $CYGDIR\\bin\\mount -m > %TEMP%\\saved-mounts.bat > $CYGDIR\\bin\\umount -s -A > $CYGDIR\\bin\\umount -A > copy $CYGDIR\\bin\\cygwin1.dll $CYGDIR\\bin\\regtool.exe %TEMP% > $CYGDIR\\bin\\rm -rf / > del /s $CYGDIR > %TEMP%\\regtool remove "/HKLM/Software/Cygnus Solutions" > %TEMP%\\regtool remove "/HKCU/Software/Cygnus Solutions" > del %TEMP%\\cygwin1.dll %TEMP%\\regtool.exe > EOF > ------- END gen-uninst.sh -------
Ok, so now we have two "new" versions of this floating around: this and <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg01092.html>. The final solution will, hopefully, combine the best features of both (mostly the output messages/warnings, as they're the same otherwise, AFAICS). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/