Re: isar-exclude-docs vs. openjdk et al.

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Hi,

not sure that doc purging is really allowed or whether we are messing
with stuff we better should not mess with.

Am Thu, 8 Apr 2021 20:54:28 +0200
schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> there seems to be a conceptual issue with isar-exclude-docs purging
> documents in its postinst hook: If other packages are configured after
> isar-exclude-docs and those packages expects certain doc paths to be
> still there, see openjdk [1], they will fail.
> 
> How to solve that?
>  - maintain a list of conflicting packages in that recipe?

This is going to be cumbersome but when having a packet that needs its
docs, we probably should not install that cleaner.

>  - convert the package to a post-process hook?

would still break apt-get update of packages that need their docs

>  - find a way to ensure a compatible ordering when running our
> postinst?

again going to break apt-get

Looking at this one example it does not really need its docs, it just
expects them in "its own hack". My guess is that the problem can be
reproduced in a ubuntu container (where the no-docs stuff is coming
from), and can be used to report an issue so that the
update-alternatives script looks for the files conditionally. Or maybe
write a patch for that package and MR it on salsa directly.

If you are installing java you probably can store a few MB of docs ;)

Henning

> 
> Jan
> 
> [1]
> https://groups.google.com/g/isar-users/c/uIHgzvCGLwU/m/tuOchY6BAgAJ
>