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Date: 15 Nov 2001 21:52:47 -0500
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From: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com>
To: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: "post-install scripts"?

I see several references in <URL:http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html> to
post-install scripts for packages, and there have been several
recent references here to such scripts as well.  I'm unclear about
what this means in the context of Cygwin.  I know that in a RedHat
RPM, for example, the post-install script is run automatically after
the package is installed.  Is the same thing true here, i.e., is there
some way to put a script into a Cygwin package that will be run
automatically after the package is installed?  Or is what is being
discussed here a script that the user needs to run by hand?

Thanks,

  jik