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Re: [RFC] incremental rebase
- From: Peter Rosin <peda at lysator dot liu dot se>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:35:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] incremental rebase
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On 2014-11-19 20:19, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
*snip*
> * EVERY (sub)package with a DLL would include a (cygport-generated) 01-rebaseall.bat -- note that this name is NOT package dependent, but clobbering is okay wrt postinstall scripts -- which would then cause rebaseall to be run only once per install and only when necessary;
*snip*
> Thoughts?
Clobbering might be ok until there is a need to update the cygport-generated
01-rebaseall.bat for some reason. When that happens a massive rebuild is
required (in this case only for DLL packages, but it's still massive). Or am
I missing something?
Cheers,
Peter