Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Deegan writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb"):
> Speaking as its author, I know what the objective is: to unpack what
> 'make install' would do, and remove it again afterwards.  The fact that
> it uses a .deb package for that is unfortunate, because it leads people
> to think of it as a packaged Xen.  Perhaps I ought to have rolled my own
> manifest for uninstalling.

I think we should fix this problem by improving the documentation.

>From a technical point of view, a .deb is definitely the right thing.

And I do think that there is a plausible argument that the config
files ought not to be just blatted over the top of your system.  (If
"make install" does that then there's the same argument there - I
don't think "make install" should trash existing config.)

If you _want_ the config files trashed on deinstallation dpkg --purge IYF

Ian.

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