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Re: [RFC/PATCH] do not run ldconfig with DESTDIR installs
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2012 18:47:50 Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> There is no point in trying to scan the non-DESTDIR tree when we are
>> doing a DESTDIR install. It just wastes time and attempts to write
>> to a path we most likely cannot update in the first place.
>
> looks like i misread the behavior here. ldconfig does only access/write to
> things inside of the -r ROOT. what threw me off was that if you run this as
> non-root, ldconfig uses full paths everywhere (ROOT/etc/...). but if you run
> it as root, it first does chroot(ROOT), then uses absolute paths after that
> (/etc...). so if you miss that initial chroot(), it looks like ldconfig is
> crapping all over places it shouldn't. so i guess i'll drop this patch from
> consideration.
> -mike
Given your confusion do you think we need better documentation?
I would accept any trivial patch to add more comments to any set of
files that would have helped make this clearer to a future maintainer.
Cheers,
Carlos.