On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:40:30PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:55:17PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > That makes the mirrors happy because the aspell dict is now arch:all, but
> > does not cause hashes being rebuilt if a new aspell with incompatible binary
> > hash format is uploaded. That is what ispell-autobuildhash is currently
> > doing and is what is expected from aspell-autobuildhash. There are some
> > problems pending, like a /usr/lib/aspell-0.60 explicitely hardcoded path 
> > that
> > will complicate a transition to e.g. 0.61, while everything would be
> > simpler if a plain /usr/lib/aspell is used. These are the kind of things
> > that are still to be considered.
> 
> Can local/extra dirs be selected besides /usr/lib/aspell-0.60? 

At runtime, yes.  At configure time, there are --enable-pkgdatadir=DIR
and --enable-pkglibdir=DIR, but I believe you cannot specify multiple
directories for those.

> Something
> like aspell looking for dicts and datas in both
> 
> /usr/lib/aspell-0.60
> /usr/lib/aspell-auto
> 
> Something like this would be good for the autobuildhash stuff, if the
> auto-dicts are installed in /usr/lib/aspell-auto. This way, when
> upgrading to e.g., aspell-0.61 autobuilt hashes will be rebuilt and found by
> the new aspell at /usr/lib/aspell-auto, new aspell stuff would be installed
> in /usr/lib/aspell-0.61 and obsolete dicts at /usr/lib/aspell-0.60 would be
> ignored.

Wouldn't you want to clean up the obsolete dicts?

I don't really understand what you're trying to accomplish.  Are you
trying to support *both* old school dictionaries (with the hash files
packaged) and new ones where the hash is autobuilt?

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