bzr completely broken?

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Wed Aug 3 15:01:00 GMT 2011


> On Aug  3 10:48, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > 
> > > . . .
> > 
> > > We're working on a new release of rebase anyway.  This new release
> > > checks for writability and prints just a warning without stopping
> > > dead in its track:
> > >
> > >   /usr/bin/foo.dll: skipped because not writable
> > 
> > > Otherwise, what we can do is to open the file with
> > > FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS.  This would allow you to rebase DLLs
> > > without write permissions if you have admin privileges.
> > 
> > A combination of the two would be best, I think.  That is, try
> > FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, so for Admins it will work, and if _that_
> > fails print the message.
> 
> I agree.  I checked that in.

Thanks.  I think that works.


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