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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
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> We've fixed this problem by building a temporary wget inside openssl
> compile It keeps wget working during openssl.  The other option, which
> is similar to yours, was to keep the old openssl binary around for a
> little bit until everything's recompiled to the new one.

e.g. keep /old.libs around longer (say until the UP_TRIGGERS for
openssl is finished)? Would that work for all libraries (while
<package>/UP_TRIGGERS is running, don't clean $BACKUP_LIBS or some
such)?

> When Andrew and I discussed this issue before, I didn't really have
> anything fleshed out like your spell idea, but I'd still like to see it
> generalized.
>
> I don't think we need to make it a special spell -- if we're going to
> fix it for this openssl issue, we could make sorcery smarter by keeping
> an index of what's linked to what (similar to what I pointed out in your
> blog) and have sorcery not dispel that libary until the index of what's
> linked to what sees that openssl 0.9.7 is no longer needed, and then,
> when it does see that it's no longer needed, have it automatically
> removed.

I like this idea, though it adds to the amount of information we store
about packages it sounds (to my mind ;)) like it could fix most of the
library issues all around.

> A kind of temporary alien store until the libraries are no longer
> useful.
>
> We'd have to add "gaze visa" to gaze alien just so people can see what's
> lurking around.  cleanse --fix would then not just check against what
> links or doesn't link, it would check to see what links to a visa'd
> alien file and then rebuild it.

Cleaner, IMO, than adding generic spells for libraries.

- -sandalle

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