Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <035f01c22218$971991b0$1800a8c0@LAPTOP> From: "Robert Collins" To: "John Vincent" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: question about setup Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:34:12 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Vincent" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:13 PM You've got it exactly right. > I know this is a bit mickey-mouse, but I want to check > I'm doing the right thing. I know people who use this > list disaprove of any installation not done using > setup.exe. It's not that we disapprove, it's that we don't know the quality of installs done without setup.exe. Were the postinstall scripts run? Was /usr/bin mounted? Were all the dependent packages run? Rob -- 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/