[ITA] _autorebase

[Ken Brown]

On 12/13/2014 10:56 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Requirements before deployment:
>
> - all autodep stuff referring to _autorebase must be removed
> - setup.exe version 2.858 or later must be used
>
>
> Notes:
>
> There will be no ITP for _incautorebase since Corinna wanted a
> replacement for _autorebase instead.
>
> Dependencies on _autorebase should not be used, but are harmless.  This
> is a Base package and it will always be run in postinstall.
>
> This release comes with an additional script rebase-trigger that can be
> used to have the postinstall script run a full rebase or peflags the
> next time setup.exe is run (with or without an update or additional
> installations or removals).  Once this is in place the description of
> how to do a manual full rebase should refer to this method instead since
> I expect it to be much easier to follow.
>
> Packages that need to tap into the autorebase infrastructure for dynamic
> objects should drop a file /etc/rebase/dynpath.d/<package> that has the
> path to be searched for dynamic objects as its content.  Currently these
> files are delivered with _autorebase, but when packages get updated they
> should take over that responsibility.  Please announce such changes so
> that the corresponding file can be removed from the _autorebase package
> before the new package version gets deployed.

A few questions:

1. Shouldn't you have removed the following line from rebase_do?

     peflags ${verbose} -d0 -t0 -T "${g}"

2. Did you intend to have a "verbose" option, or is ${verbose} just there for 
debugging?

3. Shouldn't 0p_autorebase.dash be given a name something like 
0p_000autorebase.dash to make it reasonably sure that it will be run before all 
other 0p_* scripts?

Ken