On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:57 +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > > I also propose removing rebuild-gcj-db and instead adding a
> > > --rebuild argument to gcj-dbtool that implements the current
> > > Fedora Core database management policy (which seems to work).
> > > Andrew and Tom, thoughts?
> >
> > I think thats a good idea. I see no reason why this shouldn't be
> > rolled into gcj-dbtool (Andrew?). If needed for compatibility
> > reasons, rebuild-gcj-db could be made to call "gcj-db --rebuild".
>
> There would have to be a %{_bindir}/rebuild-gcj-db in whatever
> provides gcj-db as without it none of the existing rpms could be
> uninstalled or upgraded.
With rebuild-gcj-db as an alternative I'm not sure this is even possible
now (especially if gcj is not the currently-selected alternative). I
think we can get away with "breaking backwards compatibility" here in
the interest of not maintaining a "rebuild-gcj-db" script indefinitely.
Tom
