Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:50:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rebaseall (temporary?) patch Message-ID: <20050712035008.GB22291@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050708044418 DOT GA6431 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050711125847 DOT GC3856 AT tishler DOT net> <20050712021350 DOT GC17886 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050712022240 DOT GE17886 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <42D33AD7 DOT 65CB2D0E AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D33AD7.65CB2D0E@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:36:55PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >So, anyone who installs rebase will also need to install bash. That >> ash >> >seems unfortunate to me. It means we can never deprecate ash. > >Since cygcheck already has capability for reading package file lists >(/etc/setup/*.lst.gz) do you think it would be sensible to move the >'rebaseall' logic into cygcheck, so that we don't need a shell? But I >suppose that doesn't get around the issue of not being able to run it >from a bash CMD prompt as you can currently. Though I guess it could be >installed as a shortcut on the startup menu or something. No, this really has nothing to do with the concept of "checking" cygwin, so I don't think it's appropriate here. OTOH, writing a mingw C program to do what rebaseall does wouldn't be *that* hard. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/