Re: update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-23 Thread Andrea Mennucc
we goofed update-menus already has a mechanism to avoid running too many times from the authors: >It does not work this way. When update-menus run, it check whether the >dpkg >lock is taken. In this case it check if the menu lock is taken. If yes, >it just quit. if not, it take the menu lock and w

Re: update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:07:53AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > But I would not do this for ldconfig: > what if a package needs a library it depends on to configure itself? Isn't that why library packages must include the .so symlinks, so they work before ldconfig is called? --

Re: update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
I tested it and it seems ok; so I sent the following proposal as a wishlist bug for 'menu' A Mennucc wrote: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote as an example, 80% of all debian postinst (post install) packages on my computer result in the running of update-menus. you don't need to change the whol

update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote as an example, 80% of all debian postinst (post install) packages on my computer result in the running of update-menus. you don't need to change the whole of the packages to implement the above just add a few diverts, create some specific locks , and check on e