On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:29:46PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What I found very annoying of Sven solution is that if you install > > a package by hand (Bad Thing TM), the next time you install an > > ocaml debian package the entry for the hand-installed one > > disappears. This means that you have to learn ocaml-ldconf to > > understand what is happening... > > Yes, I ran into this myself. I'd be nice if hand installed packages > were supported easily (through findlib or other ways), since we can't > expect all ocaml packages to have .debs.
There is the README.Debian file, the ocaml-ldconf man page and the debian packaging policy, not speaking about the online help of ocaml-ldconf, which all tell you explicitly to modify /etc/ocaml/ld.conf, or are you telling me you did read neither of those, nor the discution we had here about it previously, nor even the comment on top of the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file ? I wonder what i write documentation for then, maybe i should use my time for more important things if nobody ever reads it. > > I don't by Xavier's argument. > > I don't feel strongly either way. I think for Debian packaging, > avoiding unnecessary differences from the standard "ocaml way" is > probably good. But it doesn't look like there is a standard "ocaml > way" right now. That is most assuredly true, and it seems that upstream's 'one true way' seem to vary from time to time also. That said, the ocaml-ldconf only makes a little change, and did not touch most of the working schedule, apart from the patch about adding comments to the /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file. > >> I have the impression that findlib + ld.conf integration could be > >> better. > > > > What do you mean? findlib already manages ld.conf correctly, adding > > and removing lines. The problem is findlib used by hand + ocaml > > debian packages. > > findlib touches /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf, which is a generated file in > Debian. Ideally the Debian's findlib should be patched to not do > this. Yes, this would be good, and maybe resolve the problems Sergio was speaking about. > Perhaps findlib could add entries to a new /etc/ocaml/findlib-ld.conf > file that ocaml-ldconf reads when creating /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf. Why not the simple /etc/ocaml/ld.conf ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
