On Tue, 27 May 2003 00:34:18 +0300 (EEST) Narvi <narvi_at_haldjas.folklore.ee> wrote: > > Hence you need to generate it after you install, reinstall, upgrade > > and remove packages. This means you have to collect more dependency > > information beyond what we have now if you want to automate it. If > > you don't automate it, prebinding will very likely not be used. It > > will either not be created in the first place or will be stale and > > unusable within weeks. > > > > The problem is more that say after upgarding libpng or libfreetype or > libglib or similar, you will have to update way too large amount of > prebinding caches or lose all the benefits. And this despitethe factthat > no actual symbol information changed. What if someone calculates the ID which is at the moment called "BUILDID" based upon the exported symbols (e.g. concat the names of those symbols to one large string and hash it... or something like this), would this solve this problem (I haven't looked at the patch)? Bye, Alexander. -- The best things in life are free, but the expensive ones are still worth a look. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7Received on Mon May 26 2003 - 23:35:14 UTC
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