Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:39:42 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libsml2 & libxslt config files location Message-ID: <1072114782.756.15.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20031222140433.GA32655@fling-wing.demos.su> References: <20031222094622.GA99206@fling-wing.demos.su> <20031222114256.GA14823@fling-wing.demos.su> <20031222140433.GA32655@fling-wing.demos.su>
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On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 09:04, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:56:48PM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
> > Okay. Probably I missed you point here but I would say in general case=20
> > 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=
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> > >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=
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> > >them.
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> > We have {xml2,xslt}-config wich plays role similar to gtk12-config.=20
> > Those {xml2,xslt}Conf.sh files in qustion are *config* files. They=20
> > supposed to be included by various shell scripts. Yes they have .sh=20
> > suffix but look at their permissions, look at their content. I can coun=
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> > on number of ports and most notable is portupgrade wich keep such=20
> > 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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> 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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> 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}-conf=
ig?
They are used by gnome-config (which expects them in ${LOCALBASE}/etc).=20
Try it out:
gnome-config xml --cflags
gnome-config xml2 --cflags
etc.
Now, if you don't have gnome-config (part of gnomelibs), you should be
using pkg-config to obtain install info on packages such as libxml. For
example:
pkg-config xml --cflags
pkg-config xml2 --cflags
etc.
In short, we cannot move the .sh files out of ${LOCALBASE}/etc as that
will break gnome-config, and a host of other applications.
Joe
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