[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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