Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:38:09 +0900 From: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libsml2 & libxslt config files location Message-ID: <3FE70FE1.1070003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031222140433.GA32655@fling-wing.demos.su> References: <20031222094622.GA99206@fling-wing.demos.su> <3FE6D3DD.6060209@FreeBSD.org> <20031222114256.GA14823@fling-wing.demos.su> <3FE6F820.9030609@FreeBSD.org> <20031222140433.GA32655@fling-wing.demos.su>
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Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:56:48PM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
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>>Okay. Probably I missed you point here but I would say in general case
>>you can not update package w/o updating its config file if any.
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>Most packages continue to work with old config files after upgrade.
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>>>These two files are the only exception: they cantain hardcoded version
>>>number of
>>>libxml2 and libxslt.
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>>>It would be really nice to move them to some other place.
>>>Since their purpose matches gtk12-config closely, I propose /usr/local/bin
>>>for
>>>them.
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>>We have {xml2,xslt}-config wich plays role similar to gtk12-config.
>>Those {xml2,xslt}Conf.sh files in qustion are *config* files. They
>>supposed to be included by various shell scripts. Yes they have .sh
>>suffix but look at their permissions, look at their content. I can count
>>on number of ports and most notable is portupgrade wich keep such
>>script-like config files under etc/ directory.
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>If they are really config files, why do they contain version numbers of
>libxml and libxslt?!? These are constants and can not be configured.
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Because they contains bits about your current system configuration. You
don't have to edit them.
>If I upgrade those libraries and leave these files untouched, scripts you
>mentioned will continue to think we have an older version of these libs.
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If you update those library packages you automatically get their config
files updated. So others immideatly pickup new stuff.
>I see no logic here. What are these script which use {xml2,xslt}Conf.sh,
>provided that the same information can be extracted from {xml2,xslt}-config?
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Former configure scripts I believe and gnome-config from GNOME1
configuration framework.
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