autorebase and user-installed dynamic objects

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Sep 25 15:37:25 GMT 2021


On 9/25/2021 9:26 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> I have an interim update that works more or less like the current
> implementation plus some fixes to be more resilient against filenames
> containing spaces somewhere (I'd appreciate if somone would actually
> test that this works), but allows to have more fine-grained control over
> the locations or files to be rebased (changed documentation below).  The
> .eln suffix is already included in the list of extensions.  This only
> works on systems where the user directory is fully accessible to setup,
> as it will still be done during the normal autorebase step.  Any
> user-specific rebase that caters to those installations that do not
> fulfill that requirement will have to wait for the requisite support in
> rebase to appear.  Point setup to use this additional install source:
> 
> root=http://cygwin.stromeko.net/
> $root/stage
> 
> and install the test package for _autorebase contained therein.

I tried to install this with 'setup -X', but I'm getting a Download Incomplete 
pop-up saying that there was a download error for _autorebase-001090-0.1.

Ken


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