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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:37:35 -0500
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Setup 2.774 texlive postinstall takes 10+ hours
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On 11/11/2014 12:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> On Nov 11 10:02, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> Of course, this still doesn't solve the problem of making sure that the
>>> _autorebase postinstall script runs whenever the user installs a package
>>> containing DLLs.  I wonder if we should reconsider Achim's proposal.  If I
>>> understand correctly, it is something like this (oversimplified):
>>>
>>> 1. Change autorebase.bat to do an incremental rebase instead of trying to do
>>> a full rebase.
>>>
>>> 2. Arrange for autorebase.bat to never be marked as "done".
>>>
>>> Achim, please correct me if my oversimplification distorts your suggestion
>>> too much.
>>
>> Achim, can you give a management summary how your proposal works?
>
> As Ken already correctly summarized, the autorebase postinstall script
> will never be marked as done by setup.exe, so it will be run on each
> install or update.  The incremental part ensures that this step doesn't
> take too much time if there's nothing to do.  Currently this is based on
> the name of that script, but it could be done differently.  The other
> part is that all "perpetual" postinstall scripts are run before any
> normal postinstall scripts, so these can assume to run in a correctly
> rebased environment.

This seems like a very simple solution to the problem.  I like it a lot.

> A slightly modified variant of the same mechanism could be used for
> those infodir, icon cache and fontconfig updates, which should probably
> be run after the normal postinstall scripts.  I think I've sent Ken a
> sketch doing this from within a postinstall script for the texlive
> packages, but providing some support from setup.ini and setup.exe for
> stratified postinstalls (pre-post and post-post :-) would make this much
> more robust.  I haven't yet coded up anything in that direction, though.
>
> If you're wondering what happens when you've just installed a fresh
> Cygwin: the perpetual rebase postinstall scripts detects the situation
> and bails out, while the normal postinstall script does the initial
> rebase (and is marked "done").  Which means we have to fix the
> dependency problem anyway.
>
> Incremental autorebase packages and patched setup.exe available on
> request.

I'd like to see them.  Thanks.

Ken


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