[cvsnt] Re: Why do recent installers require a restart?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Feb 13 12:34:05 GMT 2004


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:24:08 +0100, Oliver Giesen <ogware at gmx.net>
wrote:


>Thus it appears to be the bit about registering the typelib inside 
>cvs.exe (I guess this is done for the COM plugins support?) that's 
>prompting the reboots. I have no idea why this could have failed. There 
>was no CVS process running at the time and I did the install with 
>administrative privileges (via Run as...).

I see no sane reason why registering a typelib would require a reboot.
Sounds like an innosetup bug.  I might be able to get around it by
calling regsvr32 directly.

>BTW: if setuid.dll is really only required for :pserver: wouldn't it 
>make sense to make it a subcomponent of Protocols\Pserver in the 
>installation?
>
It's needed for sserver and gserver, too.   Eventually the reboot due
to that won't be an issue as it'll be an unchanging dll anyway.

Tony




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