On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:25:20PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Anyway fixing the bug does not solve the problem for who have currently > > installed packages built with buggy version of dh_ocamlld, so IIRC we > > told about adding a check for spurious path in ld.conf directly in the > > ocaml package, check that we forgot to add. > > I attach a Perl script that do the dirty work: it scans the > /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf and if it find spurious entry (e.g. directories > that doesn't effictively contain shared objects) it tries to remove them > using ocaml-ldconf. > It skips system directories like /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs and > /usr/local/lib/ocaml/<version>/stublibs. > > Actually it isn't perfect: > 1) it assume that no path was added by two packages even if ocaml-ldconf > supports it, but this case currently does not hold for debian package > library and is a bit unlikely > 2) it also tries to remove directory that are in /usr/lib/ocaml/ld.conf > and that come from /etc/ocaml/ld.conf and probably fails trying to learn > the owning package from /var/lib/ocaml/ld.conf > > Anyway it works! > If Sven like this solution it can be added to the ocaml postinst script > and I can provide a patch that fix the above problems (or at least the > second one that is more important and is solvable in other 5 lines of > code).
I suppose this was the problem needing an NMU you spoke about in your private "ping" mail ? Ok, i have now read all the whole lot of the stuff, responded to some, and i hope i have not missed something. Friendly, Sven Luther
