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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:25:09 -0400
From: Fred Smith <fred DOT fredex AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin Digest 25 Sep 2005 20:51:19 -0000 Issue 4542
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:51:11 -0400
> Subject: Re: rebase: rebaseall growing pains
> Yaakov,
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:34:20PM -0500, Yaakov S wrote:
> > Rebaseall is subject to "growing pains".  In addition to the 500-some
> > packages in the distro, I have my Cygwin Ports repository installed as
> > well, which makes for a total of almost 1300 binary packages.
>
> Actually, the above brings up an interesting question.  Did you run out
> of rebase address space?  Please run rebaseall as follows:
>
>     $ rebaseall -v | tail -1
>
> and report back to the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>

Which leads me to the dumb question (patience would be appreciated :)
What is rebase? what does it do? under what circumstances would I
want/need to do it?

Gracias!

Fred

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