Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:57, Daniel Nilsson wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:22:14AM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> On Apr 4, 2005 12:52 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>> > On Sunday 03 April 2005 22:35, Marvin Dickens wrote:
>> > >On Sunday 03 April 2005 20:24, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > >> Thats called 'updatedb' on *most* distros.
>> > >
>> > >Yes, it is. However, it doesn't work as advertised on most
>> > > distro's.
>> >
>> > Oh?  It seems to be doing a crackerjack job of keeping my
>> > 'locate' database in synch with reality here.
>>
>> It's not the sort of thing you'd want to rely on at build time. If
>> you had a new system with no development packages installed, and
>> you installed them all just minutes before compiling, the locate
>> database would not contain those recently added libraries (unless
>> you were burning the midnight oil, and happened to install the dev
>> packages just before the database got reindexed).
>>
>> Now if someone combined fam (file alteration monitor) or something
>> the Linux dnotify API with an incremental indexer, you might have
>> a shot at noticing when new libraries are installed.
>
>Even still, this is not what you want to rely on to check what
> libraries are available since updatedb and locate will not index
> files on NFS servers (thank god, that would never finish in a
> corporate
>environment).
>
>If all you are asking is for files on the local computer, why not
>simply ask the package manager (rpm, apt etc) if that file is
>installed ? One reason might be that the user has installed some
> local libraries that he compiled himself, but in that case I would
> consider that an advanced user that would also then be able to tell
> pkg-config and configure how to find these libraries...

I'm working on it.  Call me a clueless advanced user if you'd 
like.  :-)

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