X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C93B1FB.4040801@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:22:51 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: simplifying rebaseall References: <4C938040.3080704@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4C9389EA.7050704@cygwin.com> <4C939F7A.1020902@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 9/17/2010 1:38 PM, Al wrote: > Hi, > > I appreciate you take the time to contribute all that information. > Hope it is not only red by me. > >> >> Now, surely that is a lot of hunting around -- but I can only assume >> that many people did so, since you are apparently the first person to >> fail to locate the documentation when faced with the question "How do I >> run rebaseall"? > > I wasn't faced with that question. I was face with error messages. > Google guided me by this messages (and many others) to exactly this > blog first: > > http://www.mylifestartingup.com/2009/04/fatal-error-unable-to-remap-to-same.html > > ... not to Cygwin list, not to the readme, not to the FAQ. The blog > rather tells how to run rebaseall not much why. The comments document > well that many people follow that advice without any knowledge of any > readme. You don't even find the word readme on that blog. But we have no control over that obviously. I think it's important to recognize when you go searching for information, it makes sense to weigh what you find against its source and consider the project's source as a more definitive and complete set of information. Obviously, there's nothing wrong with searching anywhere and everywhere for some clue about a problem. But information that comes from sites that are obviously not the project's site, cygwin.com in this case, is also a clue that further research using the project's resources and the new found data is a good idea. There's no question that there is quite a leap from the error message given to the fact that rebasing is a possible solution (and not the only possible solution - see for another). A FAQ entry about the remap error message would probably help some at least. Over time, the hope is that package rebuilding helps make this even less of a problem. But it is a pain regardless without a great solution. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple