cygwin-setup & rebaseall

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Wed Oct 26 01:45:00 GMT 2005


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.

Yes, of course setup already has that logic.  That's what I was
referring to above about name.dll.new.  My point was that you can't just
have setup call the rebaseall script as a final step because the "in use
handling" of the two has to be in sync.  It has to be tightly
integrated.

Brian

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