> This should bomb out right away, > $ install -d /var/lib/dpkg/status /tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status > install: `/var/lib/dpkg/status' exists but is not a directory > > instead of still creating /tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status.
Why? No idea, but one could add a option that makes install exit on any kind of failure; then people can pass INSTALL_FLAGS to configure and get things to fail. I'll leave it to Dan to implement such a thing. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
