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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] installwatch invocation in sorcery
  • Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:56:34 -0400

Probably because it's always been that way and no one has noticed it and
fixed it.

On Sun, 2004-23-05 at 20:06 +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> got a question for our sorcery hackers:
> Why does installwatch get loaded before BUILD is executed and not in
> prepare_install?
>
> This makes sorcery track directories that didn't get installed by the
> spell at all.
> e.g. with gather_docs now putting stuff in /usr/share/doc instead of
> /usr/doc, /usr/doc still gets tracked by _every_ spell, because it used
> to put stuff in /usr/doc which got removed when dispelling it, making
> installwatch think /usr/doc changed.
>
> installwatch running all the time during BUILD is also the cause for
> some spell failures (see bug #3846 for an example).
>

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