2008/9/25 Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Michael Biebl wrote: >>> 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Michael Biebl wrote: >>>>> 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>>> Jamie McCracken wrote: >>>>>>> ok lets just have a shell script that deletes old stuff (which is not >>>>>>> called by Makefile) and put a note in the README file on how to upgrade >>>>>> Really, this is not necessary. It is only old binary files and old >>>>>> application data which is causing the problem here. It isn't *user* data >>>>>> at all. Removing this stuff when we install is perfectly fine. >>>>> Let the user decide, but don't delete stuff in the system directory >>>>> during compilation. >>>> This doesn't happen during compilation, it happens during the install >>>> process and the user might not know about about the choice in the first >>>> place, all they see is it doesn't work. >>> >>> Yeah, I saw that you just committed that. >>> Nonetheless, you are talking about developers or at least advanced users >>> here. >>> >>> Who else would svn checkout and test compile tracker on his own, honestly. >> >> The same people that will write to the mailing list asking why svn up >> didn't work. >> >>>> This data is data we installed previously for the user. It is data we >>>> would *uninstall* if the user ran make uninstall before they did svn up. >>> >>> Have you considered that this makes it impossible for me to have >>> tracker 0.6.6 installed while trying to package 0.7? >>> >>> I don't want it to silently nuke my perfectly working 0.6.6 setup. >> >> Not really. Make distcheck should install to a specific prefix, not the >> same one you are using for older tracker installs. Building debian >> packages does the same. If you are using the same prefix for your real >> applications as your packaged applications then I would say you're doing >> something wrong there. > > Do you want to tell me how to do packaging? Ever heard of DESTDIR?
Let me rephrase that: I you insist on keeping the current behaviour, at the very least make it respect DESTDIR. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
