From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595A5BBE1 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:31:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [128.93.8.195] (alceste.inria.fr [128.93.8.195]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9BFVlNn027860 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:31:48 +0200 Message-ID: <452D0E63.6080101@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:31:47 +0200 From: Guillaume Rousse User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Why isn't ocaml distribution providing META files itself ? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 452D0E64.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; guillaume:01 guillaume:01 ocaml:01 ocamlfind:01 findlib:01 bug:01 ocaml:01 voluceau:01 rocquencourt:01 78153:01 chesnay:01 cedex:03 camltk:03 camltk:03 distributed:05 I just found a subtle problem on mandriva: ocamlfind returns camltk to be present, whereas it is not. Actually, the problems comes from the fact than findlibd generate META files during its installation for all core libraries installed on the build host, and those files get distributed in the findlib package itself. Which can perfectly get installed without camltk... This is strictly a mandriva packaging bug. However, trying to provide informations about package X in another package Y, because X doesn't do it directly, is likely to produce many other similar problems. Is there a reason to not provide META files directly from ocaml distribution itself ? -- Guillaume Rousse Projet Estime, INRIA Domaine de Voluceau Rocquencourt - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France