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  • From: Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] installwatch invocation in sorcery
  • Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 21:37:49 +0200

I was under the impression that it was turned on with the call to
prepare_install... but have never done any coding around the
installwatch stuff.

erics

> 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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