Re: [Tracker] Merging the indexer-split branch to TRUNK

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/9/25 Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>:
> 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > > > Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > > 2008/9/25 Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>:
> > > > > > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > > > > > ok lets just have a shell script that deletes old stuff (which is not
> > > > > > > called by Makefile) and put a note in the README file on how to upgrade
> > > > > > Really, this is not necessary. It is only old binary files and old
> > > > > > application data which is causing the problem here. It isn't *user* data
> > > > > > at all. Removing this stuff when we install is perfectly fine.
> > > > > Let the user decide, but don't delete stuff in the system directory
> > > > > during compilation.
> > > > This doesn't happen during compilation, it happens during the install
> > > > process and the user might not know about about the choice in the first
> > > > place, all they see is it doesn't work.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I saw that you just committed that.
> > > Nonetheless, you are talking about developers or at least advanced users here.
> > >
> > > Who else would svn checkout and test compile tracker on his own, honestly.
> >
> > The same people that will write to the mailing list asking why svn up
> > didn't work.
> >
> > > > This data is data we installed previously for the user. It is data we
> > > > would *uninstall* if the user ran make uninstall before they did svn up.
> > >
> > > Have you considered that this makes it impossible for me to have
> > > tracker 0.6.6 installed while trying to package 0.7?
> > >
> > > I don't want it to silently  nuke my perfectly working 0.6.6 setup.
> >
> > Not really. Make distcheck should install to a specific prefix, not the
> > same one you are using for older tracker installs. Building debian
> > packages does the same. If you are using the same prefix for your real
> > applications as your packaged applications then I would say you're doing
> > something wrong there.
>
> Do you want to tell me how to do packaging? Ever heard of DESTDIR?

Let me rephrase that: I you insist on keeping the current behaviour,
at the very least make it respect DESTDIR.

Cheers,
Michael

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