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Re: Touching a file in another package



On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 06:20:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is a problem with the GnomeVFS GStreamer plugin. When a new
> GnomeVFS module (providing new URI methods) is installed, GStreamer
> doesn't become aware of it because its own list doesn't change. See
> #426694 for details. Because the GStreamer registry is per-user, it
> isn't possible to regenerate it in the postinst (that's a known issue in
> GStreamer).
> 
> Despite its ugliness, the only proposed solution that works so far is to
> touch the libgstgnomevfs.so file in libgnomevfs2-extra's postinst (and
> the same for other packages providing GnomeVFS methods), so that its
> timestamp changes.
> 
This might be a really impetus and test case for the new dpkg triggers
that have been proposed.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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