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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1


On 3/28/2012 15:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 28 07:27, JonY wrote:
>> On 3/27/2012 16:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Mar 26 22:59, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 26/03/2012 9:40 PM, Jason Tishler wrote:
>>>>> New News:
>>>>> === ====
>>>>> I have updated the version of rebase to 4.1.0-1.  The tarballs should be
>>>>> available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly.
>>>>>
>>>>> The following are the changes since the previous release:
>>>>>
>>>>>     * Add rebase/rebaseall touch file (i.e., -t option) support.
>>>>>
>>>>>     * Add rebaseall setup (i.e., -p option) support.
>>>>>
>>>>>     * Add .oct to the default rebaseall suffix list.
>>>> I've been meaning to ask... but maybe the above-mentioned -p flag
>>>> obsoletes it now: What's the most efficient way to rebase after
>>>> running setup? We've had the rebase db for a while now, so running
>>>> rebaseall seems like overkill. Only the newly downloaded dlls need
>>>
>>> Now that the new rebase is out, I'm going to create an _autorebase
>>> package which will automatically call rebaseall at the end of a
>>> successful run of setup, if that run also updated existing DLLs or
>>> came with new DLLs.
>>
>> If I don't want it to run? I've never had any need to rebase DLLs on my
>> Win7 64bit machine.
> 
> It doesn't hurt either.
> 
> 

I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is
still in use.

I often have Cygwin processes running when I run setup to add new
packages, If any DLLs are in use, upgrade is postponed.


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