Re: Bug#6638: cweb incorrectly installs /usr/local/lib/cweb
>Summary:
>- cweb now creates `/usr/local/lib/cweb/' directory, into which site
> local files can be placed. This path is compiled in cweb. Is it
> OK, or should this directory be `/usr/lib/'? (I think
> `/usr/local/lib' is better. No general local stuff should be out
> of `/usr/local/'.)
>- cweb creates this directory in `postinst' and removes it in
> `postrm' after receiving bug #6638. However there is little problem
> with it -- I can't see it in `dpkg -L' report. And this is a method
> I use for inspecting what files newly installed package uses and
> consider to be quickly available simple information about any
> package. So it's more safe (against ro mounted /usr/local/) but
> less consistent. What to do with it?
Being the person that chronically complains about this :), I am for
the cweb method of handling this... Few things are more frustrating
than changing the mount tables for more than a dozen debian machines
just so I can upgrade or install emacs (as one example), so it can
attempt to remove and re-create a directory that is already there...
--
Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin
bofh@bofh.me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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