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RE: cygwin-setup & rebaseall
- From: Satish Balay <balay at fastmail dot fm>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:48:13 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: RE: cygwin-setup & rebaseall
- References: <SERRANO4A2DreBBsQwY0000021e@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> Satish Balay wrote:
>
> > Doesn't setup have similar problem with updating 'packages' for
> > running apps? I think it prompts for a reboot to complete. So I'm
> > guessing the same approach can be used when it needs a rebase.
>
> It's not as straightforward as all that. The facility to update a file on
> reboot is built into the windows OS, setup.exe just makes use of it. There
> is no facility to rebase a file on reboot built into windows!
Not ideal - but it could do either fo the following: [and both of
these I think are better options then current mode - which silently
leaves packages in potentially broken state]
- open a dialog box with a message:
"some packages that require 'rebaseall' are updated. This operation
cannot be done at this time due to active cygwin processes. Please
reboot, shutdown cygwin services, and run 'rebaseall' from 'ash'."
- open a dialog box with a message: "some packages that require
'rebaseall' are updated - hence setup is incomplete. Please reboot,
shutdown cygwin services and rerun setup - so that it can continue
and fix this."
Satish
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