Re: [Dri-users] Last Debian DRI package/source ?

[Nicole Z. <co...@ws...>]

I have made debian packages that use alternatives to change the version of
something like gdm.conf or java (which was sort of there, sort of broken)  
for some sort of corporate or user specific choice. Using alternatives is
a little prettier than just fudging the link by hand, though I don't
know how ldconfig will feel about it because I haven't tried it with a
library.

As it is, libGL on my husband's debian system *does* point to
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL* -- the locations in /usr/lib are just links. On my
system they are actual files (installed by hand) and ldconfig complains
about this all of the time. You should not have to modify the source code
to place them directly in /usr/lib (as long as the source places them
somewhere that is decent and makes sense), but you will have to check on
the links and make sure to make backups of either the links themselves (if
you put the libGL file(s) in a different location) or the files themselves
(If you put your new libGL file(s) in /usr/X11R6/lib where the old ones
are also located).

-nicole

At 19:33 on Jul 13, Zilvinas Valinskas combined all the right letters to say:

> I like debian too much ... maybe. And this has to be done the
> right way. Or none at all ... I want it be easy as it was ...
> via apt-get and *.deb files.
> 
> That isn't too bad though ...