Re: ocaml 3.04-3 uploaded
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:08:30PM +0100, Sven wrote:
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> > Hi again,
> >
> > here is an implementation. This dh_ocamlld script add calls to Stefano's OCaml
> > program (called ocaml-ldconf in these files) in postinst and postrm scripts.
> > The post{inst,rm}-ocamlld snippets must first be put into
> > /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/ directory.
>
> Mmm, ...
>
> Does this have to go into the debhelper package or the ocaml package ?
All these files (ocaml-ldconf, dh_ocamlld and debhelper scripts) must be
shipped with ocaml.
> If it is the later, i see a chicken and egg problem, as ocaml-base provides 3
> such dll locations which need to be added to the file.
>
> But then, since ocaml-base is depended upon by all the other dll containing
> packages, i suppose i could just have it provide a file with these 3
> directories provided in it.
Exactly.
But there are 2 possible locations (paths refer to the other mail):
/etc/ocaml/paths or /var/lib/ocaml/(dpkg-)paths
I prefer having default paths in the former.
> But then again, i suppose the best way would be to mark this file as
> configuration file, which may be kept even if ocaml-base is removed,
> especially if we do a --force-depend or something such.
Yes.
Denis
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