Discussion of Sorcery related topics

[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Eric Sandall wrote:

> Quoting Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>:
> > Forgot to list these spells. This is the list from stable that references 
> > SOURCE_DIRECTORY in POST_INSTALL:
> > 
> > epsutil
> > gcc
> > gcc2
> > glibc
> > magicfilter2
> > openoffice
> > speedtouch
> > texinfo
> > xdirectfb
> > xfree86
> > xfree86-devel
> > xfree86-libs
> > 
> > 
> > Most of these only reference $SOURCE_DIRECTORY to remove it. The only two 
> > exceptions are speedtouch and texinfo. speedtouch offers to view the 
> > howto 
> > from SOURCE_DIRECTORY, however it should be available in 
> > /usr/share/doc/speedtouch (at least the POST_INSTALL says so if the user 
> > opts not to view it then). texinfo uses the SOURCE_DIRECTORY to store 
> > some 
> > temporary files for generating a list of info files, this could easily be 
> > done in /tmp.
> 
> I believe that all files a spell needs to create temporarily should reside 
> in
> $SOURCE_DIRECTORY only, otherwise people cannot cleanly remove a failed 
> compile
> by just removing $SOURCE_DIRECTORY. Correct me if you think this idea is 
> bad.
> ;)
> 
> -sandalle
> 

Nope, that does sound reasonable. I'd suggest moving these operations that 
your SOURCE_DIRECTORY to POST_BUILD, but if changes are still tracked 
there, we don't want to be tracking anything in SOURCE_DIRECTORY. Another 
possibility would be yet another script, POST_CONFIGURE or something that 
would do the other stuff that should be done upon resurrecting.

-casey