At 13:58 Uhr -0500 31.01.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: >Thanks for the explanation, Max. It's something that I kinda knew, but >had forgotten. > >I haven't ever used Debian/Linux, but what I am hoping will happen after >we get this going is this: if I install a new version of a library, >dpkg will automatically recompile all of the guys that depend on it. >Is that correct?
Sadly, no. Rather, it will complain with a dependency problem, i.e. it would refuse the update. Of course that is suboptimal. In this situation, the only way for the user to update would be to first remove the old versions of the dependant stuff, then update the lib, then reinstall the removed stuff. Yucky. Maybe we should start to adopt the approach Debian uses for this... refer to_ http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s11.2 and #s11.3 And maybe also take a look at this: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
