Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-30 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 09:06 +0100, William Pursell wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > According to William Pursell on 9/29/2007 11:14 AM: > >> I'm talking about those files named $cache_file in > >> my $CONFIG_SITE. Since they hold lines of th

Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-30 Thread William Pursell
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to William Pursell on 9/29/2007 11:14 AM: I'm talking about those files named $cache_file in my $CONFIG_SITE. Since they hold lines of the form: ac_cv_func_foo=${ac_cv_func_foo=yes} the cache is invalid if I remove the p

Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to William Pursell on 9/29/2007 11:14 AM: > I'm talking about those files named $cache_file in > my $CONFIG_SITE. Since they hold lines of the form: > ac_cv_func_foo=${ac_cv_func_foo=yes} > the cache is invalid if I remove the package > cont

Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-29 Thread William Pursell
Bob Proulx wrote: William Pursell wrote: I often find myself removing a package and then deleting all of my cache files, but I have a tendency to forget to delete the cache files until a configure invocation noticeably misbehaves. Autoconf cache files? As in the 'autom4te.cache' directories c

Re: dpkg hooks

2007-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
William Pursell wrote: > I often find myself removing a package and then deleting > all of my cache files, but I have a tendency to forget > to delete the cache files until a configure invocation > noticeably misbehaves. Autoconf cache files? As in the 'autom4te.cache' directories created in the

dpkg hooks

2007-09-27 Thread William Pursell
Originally, I was planning to post this question to one of the Debian lists, but the second part of the question is more appropriate here, so I thought I would just start here. I often find myself removing a package and then deleting all of my cache files, but I have a tendency to forget to dele