Re: ocaml compiled binaries and rpath

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:11:23PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:26:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> [...]
> > > > Finally, maybe all this shows that there is a propper usage of rpath
> > > > finally, and that the ocaml_packaging_policy should allow rpath for
> > > > these cases, and these cases only.
> 
> I never said that rpath is evil, one must know its benefits and drawbacks
> and decide when to use it.  In our case, I am still not convinced it
> does a good job, but I need more time; you guys are thinking too fast
> for me, I have to test how OCaml does use it.

Ok, let's think a bit more about this, there is no urgency anyway.

> > >  Maybe. But the scary scenario of Denis where you end up compiling
> > >  against an old version still applied, doesn't it?
> 
> I think so.
> 
> > We don't care. It is just a matter of discipline, you build your
> > packages in pbuilder or upload source only and let the autobuilders do
> > their job.



> Ouch, do you really believe that everyone builds his packages with pbuilder?

Well, at least they should. I could make if ocaml_packaging_policy if
need be. The only reason i don't upload source only packages is that we
have no arch: all autobuilder.

> And in this case please add Build-Conflicts against previous
> versions to make sure that there are no problems.

Mmm, i didn't know there were build conflicts.

Friendly,

Sven Luther