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On 11/3/2014 1:03 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> Off the top of my head I don't know how hard that would be, but it
>> doesn't sound like an especially bad idea to me.  Au contraire.
>
> It should be quite easy since the postinstall scripts are run in POSIX
> sort order.

That's now what I see here, unless I'm badly confused about what POSIX sort 
order is.  I did an update a few days ago in which the postinstall scripts were 
run in the following order:

update-info-dir.sh
autorebase.bat
wget.sh

> Just give the script a name like 00001_autorebase.bat and
> it should always be the first one that runs.
>
>> One thing we could test is if we can't get away without tweaking
>> setup.exe, by changing the dependencies only.  Right now _autorebase
>> requires rebase and dash packages.  Both are in Base anyway, but they
>> pull in more dependencies which result in something like a rat tail of
>> dependencies.  So I'm wondering if tweaking _autorebase' setup.hint file
>> like this:
>
> Dependencies are not evaluated at all when installing or running
> scripts.
>
> But it would really be better to use triggers for these sort of scripts.
> I have something implemented for my "perpetual" postinstall that does an
> incremental rebase after each setup run, but it could be extended to be
> controlled by setup.ini instead of a naming convention.

Ken

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