At 08:30 -0500 1999-03-27, James LewisMoss wrote:
2) dpkg's files will stay in /var/lib rather than being moved to /var/state. This more a survival instinct. Moving these files could be _very_ bad if not done correctly.
I don't buy that, go look at the dpkg postinst, it has code not only to move stuff from /var/adm/dpkg to /var/lib/dpkg, but convert it to a new format. I fail to see how "mkdir /var/state && mv /var/lib/dpkg /var/state/dpkg && ln -sf state /var/lib" (obviously there needs to be more error handling there) is somehow more difficult than that.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
