Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

[Marvin Dickens <marvindickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 22:24, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.  :-)

Thing is, I like to install from source. So, regardless if the distro
uses apt, rpm or whatever, I'm still hoarked - RPM and apt only know 
about their packages and have no knowledge of things installed from source.
Even Gentoo is clueless regarding source installations. As for the NFS thing,
I agree that that would be nightmare mode.

Oh yeah,  Gene -  I know from other lists that you are definitely not 
clueless.


Regards

Marvin