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Re: Shall setup.exe call rebaseall in postinstall?
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:51:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: Shall setup.exe call rebaseall in postinstall?
- References: <20110812152641.GF7469@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 12/08/2011 16:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The next rebase application stores rebase data in a database in /etc.
> The corresponding rebaseall will use this feature. The effect is that
> the existing DLLs are compared with the database, and only the DLLs
> which are new or result in collisions with other DLLs wil be rebased.
> In the end, all DLLs in the distro will be collision free.
>
> The entire process only takes a couple of seconds, so I'm wondering if
> setup should call rebaseall explicitely at the end of the postinstall,
> or if we should add a postinstall script which does that all the time,
> kind of like the enforced _update_info_dir.
I always like having a get-out-of-jail-free card up my sleeve, so how about
having it as a third checkbox on the installation complete page alongside the
desktop/startmenu create icon checkboxes?
cheers,
DaveK