This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: rebasing new packages?!
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:27:36PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:tolj@wapme-systems.de]
> >>Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:10 AM
> >>
> >>could someone of the gurus arround tell a (half-)guru :))
> >>what the standard way would be if packages have rebase problems?
> >>
> >
> >We either get Jasons in-setup-rebase patch into setup, or include a
> >command line rebase, and make your package require it, and your
> >postinstall script execute it.
>
> I thought that the last time this subject came up, the consensus was
> that Jason's code should go into the cinstall area (now, of course, that
> means the setup repository). The standalone rebase.exe should be built
> within that project, along with setup.exe which would leverage the same
> code.
>
> That way, there's no possibility that the two programs would get
> out-of-sync with respect to the /etc/rebase.conf (?) information and
> file format.
The above is correct. Unfortunately, I'm still not finished.
[Jason hangs his head in shame] Sigh...
Jason