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Re: cygwin-setup & rebaseall


On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Satish Balay wrote:
>
> > [maybe the fix is: for any package that is likely to break - add a
> > flag - which triggers setup to run rebaseall - after
> > install/upgrade. So no overhead for pacakges that don't break - but
> > always overhead for packages that break.]
>
> Automatically running rebaseall from setup.exe has issues too.  For one
> thing, it would run into problems if the user had programs or services
> running.  The rebaseall script bails if it cannot write to a DLL, so
> unless the user was very careful to close all running programs, it would
> fail in almost all cases.  Rebaseall would have to be modified to rebase
> in-use DLLs, but this would require the user to reboot.  And, somehow
> this would have to be communicated to setup.exe so it could notify the
> user.  Plus, consider if setup.exe installed a DLL that was in use
> (writing it to name.dll.new, and scheduling that for replacement at next
> boot) and then rebaseall was run.  The rebaseall script would have to
> know to rebase name.dll.new and not name.dll.  It just gets more and
> more complicated.  The only workable solution would be to incorporate
> the entire rebaseall functionality internally into setup.exe, which is
> not an insignificant undertaking, and one which no one is eager to
> undertake.

Plus, as Jason mentions, rebasing corrupts some DLLs.  So, until a robust
solution for that is found, automatically rebasing in setup.exe isn't such
a hot idea.
	Igor
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