On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 08:52:32PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:51:29AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > dpkg-reconfigure ocaml > > Why would I need to do this ? What's the reason for debconfing > > ocaml? > > Oops, sorry, I meant to suggest you to rerun the ocaml postinst script: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ocaml.postinst > > that ricreate the link. > > The problem I was thinking about was that in an (not so) ancient version > of camlidl I used to install an header file directly in > /usr/include/caml this caused dpkg to remove the symlink and place a > directory with only my header file. > > The current version of camlidl is fixed, but if you had installed an old > version you probably need to remove them, rerun the ocaml postinst > script and install the newer version of camlidl afterwards.
Mmm, would it make sense to check in preinst if /usr/include/caml exists, and use a debconf dialog to inform the user about this, or even move it around ? Friendly, Sven Luther
