Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, 06 Mar 2010, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Figuring out a better solution for why the files in >> > /var/lib/ispell and /var/lib/aspell are excluded from the md5sums >> > generation because they change after installation is probably >> > needed >> >> I think these hash files are not arch independent. Which is why the >> packages only ship empty files in the deb and generate the correct >> binary data in postinst. This way the hash files are listed in dpkg >> -L, and dpkg takes care of removal instead of relying on >> maintainerscripts. > > So there's a period on upgrade where the file has been overwritten > with an file before the new file has been generated? > > That's just wrong.
Why? Considering the old hash file may be invalid anyway after you've upgraded other related packages (the aspell dict ones are format-dependent on the aspell version), why would it matter that the hash file is temporarily empty? -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vdd6hns0....@bignachos.net
