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Re: semi-automated installation and/or updates


On Mon 2012-08-20 07:14, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >> You SHOULD NOT run rebaseall manually, unless you really need to do so.

Do you have any solid reason to backup this statement?  Any known
conditions where it definitely should not be run?

> > I added the call to rebaseall because of this post by Corinna:
> 
> >   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00320.html
> 
> > Installing more packages that are forgotten in the first run of
> > setup.exe is what I (and I suspect others) do all the time.  I would
> > love to get some feedback either way on this issue.
> 
> That's something that should be handled in setup.exe, IMO.
> May be it's worth putting a clear note, that this is a workaround for existing
> inconsistency? (With a reference you gave me here.)

The reference was already there, but I added some more comments
regarding the run of rebaseall.

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Tom Schutter

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