Re: [SPARSE] Questions for distros

["Uwe Kleine-König" <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>]

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Hi Luc,

On 11/04/2017 06:43 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 18:25 +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm making some cleanup in my dev tree and there are a few things
>> I'm curious about concerning what distros are doing.
>>
>> I hope you don't mind to answer to those questions.
>>
>> 1) Do the distros use sparse's shared lib?
>>    I remember there was a mail about it months ago but 
>>    I can't find it anymore.
>>
> 
> The Fedora and EPEL packages do not. I'm not opposed to adding it, but I
> don't really need it and no one has asked for it.
> 
>> 2) Do the distros use sparse's install rule?
>>
> 
> Yes. rpmbuild basically does a make install in a chrooted dir, and then
> installs the files that end up in there.
> 
>> 3) Do the distros install sparse with its pkconfig?
> 
> No. Since we aren't packaging the shared lib, we don't bother.
> 

The answers for Debian are exactly the same. Ubuntu uses the Debian
packages as is.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/sparse (and
https://packages.debian.org/sid/sparse-test-inspect) have "list of
files" links for each architecture which might be quicker to answer
similar questions for you. (But I don't mind your questions.)

Best regards
Uwe


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