Re: [RFC] incremental rebase

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/8/2014 11:48 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> 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.

The attached script is what I had in mind.  It's better than what we 
have now and could be a starting point.

Ken

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