[fedora-java] gcj-dbtool --rebuild

[Gary Benson]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> David Walluck writes:
> > I don't know how I feel about the Makefile idea. In any case, it
> > should never require user intervention.  What besides sendmail is
> > using this method anyhow? IMO, `make' should be touched by
> > packagers only, certainly not by end users, and not even by system
> > admins.
> 
> They won't need to.  The question here is how we fix our existing
> scripts so that they don't do unnecessary work.  If we do that, then
> they can be called unconditionally.  make is the right answer here,
> because it's a tool that already knows how to do the dependency
> analysis that's needed.

All it has to do is read every .db file under /usr/lib/gcj and write
what it finds to a .db file in /var/lib/gcj.  Where's the dependency
analysis in that?

Cheers,
Gary