Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Nov 11 18:37, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/11/2014 12:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >As Ken already correctly summarized, the autorebase postinstall script
> >will never be marked as done by setup.exe, so it will be run on each
> >install or update.  The incremental part ensures that this step doesn't
> >take too much time if there's nothing to do.  Currently this is based on
> >the name of that script, but it could be done differently.  The other
> >part is that all "perpetual" postinstall scripts are run before any
> >normal postinstall scripts, so these can assume to run in a correctly
> >rebased environment.
> >[...]
> >A slightly modified variant of the same mechanism could be used for
> >those infodir, icon cache and fontconfig updates, which should probably
> >be run after the normal postinstall scripts.  I think I've sent Ken a
> >sketch doing this from within a postinstall script for the texlive
> >packages, but providing some support from setup.ini and setup.exe for
> >stratified postinstalls (pre-post and post-post :-) would make this much
> >more robust.  I haven't yet coded up anything in that direction, though.
> >
> >If you're wondering what happens when you've just installed a fresh
> >Cygwin: the perpetual rebase postinstall scripts detects the situation
> >and bails out, while the normal postinstall script does the initial
> >rebase (and is marked "done").  Which means we have to fix the
> >dependency problem anyway.
> >
> >Incremental autorebase packages and patched setup.exe available on
> >request.
> 
> I'd like to see them.  Thanks.

Yes, me too.

Achim, does your perpetual autorebase rely on the existing autorebase
script?  If so, do you see a good chance to consolidate the changes
into a single package we're still calling _autorebase?


Corinna

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