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[Sankar P <psankar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sankar P wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > We could patch these wrappers to take care of vacuuming the DB at
> > > application exit (or at N-th exit, or storing the date of the last
> > > vacuum and check if it's older than N days). What do you think?
> >
> > Is it okay for multiple rpms to patch a single file ?  (I know it is
> > okay for something like /etc/pam.d/gdm) I am not sure if there are any
> > packaging guidelines against such practices.
> >
> > i.e., our vacuumizer will patch /usr/bin/firefox which is owned by
> > someother package, FireFox.
>
> No. I was suggesting to patch the individual packages, so the vacuumizer
> wouldn't be needed anymore. And to get these patches upstream.

Ah. That could be tricky.

Some packages are packaged differently across distributions.  For
instance, last time I checked, evolution was packaging a
/usr/bin/evolution.bin binary which had some hacks to pre-load to some
Samba of evolution's own, instead of relying on system samba (for its
MAPI provider etc.) However, it has been a long time and things
could've changed/improved now.

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Sankar P
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