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Re: Shall setup.exe call rebaseall in postinstall?
On Aug 12 16:51, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12/08/2011 16:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > The next rebase application stores rebase data in a database in /etc.
> > The corresponding rebaseall will use this feature. The effect is that
> > the existing DLLs are compared with the database, and only the DLLs
> > which are new or result in collisions with other DLLs wil be rebased.
> > In the end, all DLLs in the distro will be collision free.
> >
> > The entire process only takes a couple of seconds, so I'm wondering if
> > setup should call rebaseall explicitely at the end of the postinstall,
> > or if we should add a postinstall script which does that all the time,
> > kind of like the enforced _update_info_dir.
>
> I always like having a get-out-of-jail-free card up my sleeve, so how about
> having it as a third checkbox on the installation complete page alongside the
> desktop/startmenu create icon checkboxes?
How do you decide if the box should be cheched automatically or not?
Having a database file? That's not exactly the right thing to do.
How else? Or should that be an "always checked by default" option?
Corinna
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