Originally, I was planning to post this question to one of the Debian lists, but the second part of the question is more appropriate here, so I thought I would just start here. I often find myself removing a package and then deleting all of my cache files, but I have a tendency to forget to delete the cache files until a configure invocation noticeably misbehaves. At first, I thought that I wanted some sort of hook into dpkg/aptitude/apt-get/synaptic/etc to automatically remove all of my cache files when a package is deleted. I'm perfectly happy making dpkg a shell function that does the delete for me, but was hoping for more elegant suggestions. Then I realized that what I really want is a hook to update all the cache files. Clearly, updating the cache is hard in general, but for simple packages, it would be very easy for the package's install and post-install scripts to do, for sufficiently broad definitions of "very easy". However, that puts all the work on the package maintainer. All of the information is available in the database, and could be done automatically. Does any such mechanism already exist? Is there a way to update a cache file easily and quickly? _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
