Re: mine

Hi,

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:01:15AM +0200, Stefan Fiedler wrote:
> 1) I noticed that e.g. the acl package contains symlink files (to shared 
> libraries) that don't have an entry in the /var/adm/md5sum/acl file. This 
> makes mine with the postinstall patch think that these symlinks are 
> modified/duplicate files.
> I suppose the md5sums are missing because these symlinks are created by 
> ldconfig. Md5sums should be created for these files, too (after all they are 
> in the flist file of the package).

no. the symlinks do not have md5sums because they are symlinks. See
[2005050411073615864] for a patch which changes this behavior.

> 2) Currently mine does not remove left-over files when updating packages, that 
> is files which are part of the old package version but not of the new 
> version. If we ensure that flist files are sorted, this should be really easy 
> to change. 

The idea here ist to not actually remove this files but move them to
special "*:purgeme" split-packages.

Simply removing them could me dangerous because they still may be library
dependencies on those packages left. Moving them to special split packages
would allow implementing an extra purgeing script which does check for such
cases and remove the files if it is save to do so.

You are welcome to implement that too..  ;-)

yours,
 - clifford

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