[libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] docs: Don't leave any documentation behind

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Apr 19 14:48:55 UTC 2016


On 19.04.2016 16:38, John Ferlan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/19/2016 09:50 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> Our uninstall script is not exact counterpart of install one.
>> Therefore we are leaving couple of files behind. This should not
>> happen.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  docs/Makefile.am | 6 ++++++
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
> 
> At 'install-data-local:', there's a :
> 
>         $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR)
> 
> why not just the far more all encompassing:
> 
>    rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR)
> 
> and
> 
>    rm -rf $(DESTDIR)$(DEVHELP_DIR)
> 
> Rather than picking each part we install to uninstall? and missing
> something in the future or even now.  Do the 'html' or 'internals'
> directories gets removed?  And then of course the toplevel directory
> which we created.
> 
> IOW: There's no corollary for the:
> 
>         $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR)
>         $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR)/html
>         $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR)/internals
>         $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(DEVHELP_DIR)
> 
> 

Yeah. That's the other way of doing that. It's just that if users put
anything in $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR) it will be removed by uninstall. But I
can propose v2 if you want.

Michal




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