On 10/01/2010 12:12 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Il giorno ven, 01/10/2010 alle 20.43 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan ha scritto: >>> >>> Does lafilefixer fix binpkgs now? As well as the vdb manifests for the >>> files? If it doesn't, I strongly object to having it as an official >>> recommendation. A surprisingly large no. of people (at least on >>> bugzilla) have FEATURES=buildpkg . >> >> And usually (even if not always) have one system where they build and >> one system where they install. The one where they install only, and not >> build, will do nothing with .la files, so fixed or not doesn't make any >> difference. >> > > Right, so a few weeks later when they re-merge a binpkg, they suddenly > get build failures again. And that confuses them since it's > unexpected. This is in general a bad experience for stable users who > want to get work done, not baby-sit their system.
Maybe advise them to use post_pkg_preinst instead of post_src_install, so it works even for binary packages. -- Thanks, Zac
