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Re: [ITA] _autorebase


On Jan 14 18:00, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > AFAIU, you just have to provide a per-package file defining the path
> > to your dynamic libs.  I just unpacked
> > http://cygwin.stromeko.net/noarch/release/_autorebase/_autorebase-001000-1.tar.xz
> > and it contains files under etc/rebase/dynpath.d/ called R and octave:
> >
> >   $ cat etc/rebase/dynpath.d/R
> >   /usr/lib/R/site-library
> >   $ cat etc/rebase/dynpath.d/octave 
> >   /usr/lib/octave/site
> >
> > IIUC, you simply have to provide the files yourself, so every package
> > can influence easily what the new autorebase rebases :)
> >
> > Achim, is that about right?
> 
> Yes, and if a full package rebuild isn't possible for whatever reason
> this file could just be packaged in a separate package that then needs
> to be referenced from the main package via dependency.  It looks like
> this will need to be done for Perl if Reini doesn't re-surface.
> 
> BTW, do we want to keep these files in /etc or move to /var/lib?  Both
> Ken and I interpret the LSB/FSH document as recommending /var/lib as the
> place to put such things.  We could of course do that later on (there's
> other stuff in /etc that would fall under that rule), but since nothing
> has been released at the moment I thought I should ask again if a policy
> decision has been reached already.

/var/lib/rebase/dynpath.d sounds good to me.


Thanks,
Corinna

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