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Re: [RFC] incremental rebase
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:48:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] incremental rebase
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Ken Brown writes:
> I'm not convinced that we need to worry so much about all these
> details. What if we just check (based on timestamps of files in
> /etc/setup/*.lst.gz) whether anything has been installed into
> /usr/info or /usr/share/info since we last did this check. If so,
> then just do exactly what the current update-info-dir.sh does.
We also need to track if something was deinstalled. Unless we want to
force all packages to do the appropriate install-info calls themselves
in preremove and postinstall, of course.
> autorebase can't get away with anything so simple, but it seems to me
> that this is good enough for update_info_dir.
We can always fall back to what we are doing now, yes. But I'd like to
see if it can be improved.
Regards,
Achim.
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