[RFC] incremental rebase
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 20 11:35:00 GMT 2014
On Nov 20 10:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Idle thought:
>
> Most of the 000-cygwin-post-install.sh script could be moved to
> setup.exe, though. Creating all the essential distro directories is
> now split between setup and base-cygwin, with setup doing the major
> part anyway.
> If we tweak setup to create /dev, /dev/shm, /dev/mqueue, /etc/fstab.d,
> the base-cygwin script could be reduced to
>
> - creating default /etc/fstab
> - creating default /etc/nsswitch.conf
> - creating the /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlink.
>
> Nothing of this is really essential for the installation, so in
> theory, base-cygwin doesn't really need to run before everything else
> anymore.
I applied a matching patch to setup, as well as to my local
000-cygwin-post-install.sh script I'm going to use when 1.7.34 goes
release.
Corinna
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