[Wine] Update process

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 11:28:31 CST 2009


2009/1/7 André H. <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:
> After 6 month working with wine i would say i have some experience, but i still dont understand what happens when you update wine with the prefixes.
> I mean, what happens with the dlls and the other stuff in
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> ~/WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows
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When wineboot is run, it checks to see if the prefix has been run with
that version of wine before, and automatically updates any needed
files.

Most the dlls and what not in there are just fake placeholders. The
'real' dlls are in /usr/local/bin/wine /usr/bin/wine/.

-- 
-Austin


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