On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:55:06PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:45:16PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Ok, i will do in ocaml 3.06-7, which will be released when we have > > solved the other issue. > > Ok, never forget the final "#DEBHELPER#", otherwise debhelpers generated > scripts won't be added.
Ok, i was wondering about this ... > > BTW, what if i dpkg --force-depends --purge ocaml-base, this will remove > > the /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf file, but the installed libraries will not > > know about this ? > > We have not to care about "--force-depends", quoting from 'dpkg > --force-help': > > WARNING - use of options marked [!] can seriously damage your > installation. > > and -depends is marked with a '!', the manpage enforce this: > > Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used by experts > only. Using them without fully understanding their effects may > break your whole system. > > So, if a user is doing something like that is not our problem. Ok ... > Anyway, if you want you can use a debconf[1] dialog or something like > that which test if /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf is empty, if it is not the > case it can ask the user if he really wants to remove the file. Mmm ... > If you choose such a solution you also have to test for the presence of > /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf before creating a new one while installing the > ocaml-base package. No need, i think, ocaml-ldconf in ocaml-base's postinst will only create the /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf if it does not already exist. > Last I don't know if is good and/or admitted to have a file in /var/lib > that doesn't belong to any package, but I can't a better solution (other > that moving /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf somewhere in /etc, but we all agree > on that file not to be a conffile). Let's keep it there for now, later it will be removed anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther
