From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15974 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2015 00:52:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5663 invoked by uid 89); 5 Feb 2015 22:02:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,UNSUBSCRIBE_BODY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-in-12.arcor-online.net X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-06.arcor-online.net 3kdYdg0xmvz8GKK From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: _autorebase-001002-1 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87r3u4dnkp.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 _autorebase =========== This package provides scripts to keep the Cygwin system properly rebased. By default this happens incrementally, which means after each run of setup.exe it is determined which packages have been newly installed and only the dynamic objects provided by those packages are rebased, taking the rebase map of the existing installation into account. Since over time the rebase map can become fragmented, it is possible to trigger a full rebase. In this case all packages on the system are treated as newly installed and the existing rebase map is cleared before doing the rebase. Some programs allow the user to create or install dynamic objects. Since these are not part of a packge, they wouldn't be rebased. Packages can make the potential locations of such dynamic objects known by dropping a file (named after the package) in /var/lib/rebase/dynpath.d/. If any dynamic objects are installed by users, these locations should be advertised in /var/lib/rebase/user.d/ (the file name should be identical to the user name). The format of these files is one absolute path per line. Those directory paths should not include locations of packaged dynamic objects. The incremental rebase is controlled by the script /usr/bin/rebaselst. Except for debuggin purposes this script should not be run directly by users, as (like any other attempt at rebasing) it doesn't work correctly on a live Cygwin system. To perform a full rebase, execute "rebase-trigger fullrebase". Then shut down Cygwin and simply run setup.exe. The rebase will be performed even when the installation did not get modified in any way. Any subsequent runs of setup.exe will again rebase in incremental mode. Regards, Achim. -- *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe- you=yourdomain.com cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.