[arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem 2010.02-2

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Feb 12 22:10:59 EST 2010


On 13/02/10 12:44, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Samstag, 6. Februar 2010 05:51:02 schrieb Allan McRae:
>>> It would be nicer if you did the change automatically from
>>> post_install/post_upgrade. Detecting the presence of the include is
>>> simple done with grep, and adding it is a simple echo. Other packages
>>> touch this file directly and will get changed to dropping an
>>> ld.so.conf.d file in the future, those packages will stop working if
>>> this ld.so.conf change isn't done.
>>> The filesystem package touches the group and passwd files in the same
>>> way, so there's no excuse not to do this change automatically.
>>
>> So...  what are we doing for this?   I have a couple of packages I want
>> to update to this new include directory but will hold off until this
>> leaves [testing].
>
> I think this is correct. I thought about it and on the one hand ld.so.conf is
> aconfig file; but it's not one that is edited by the user but by several
> packages on install.
>
> So its fine to update it during the upgrade. Maybe in future versions if all
> other packages use the include dir we can remove that file from the backup
> array.
>
> I went ahead and put filesystem-2010.02-2 into testing.
>
> Please sign off.

Change worked fine here.

Signoff i686.
Allan



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