Bug#583585: Something like the following code snippet ?

2013-09-02 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: >> The files must not be moved from the old dir to the new symlink-to-dir, >> otherwise dpkg will lose track of them wrt to their canonical path, and > > And what about files which are not m

Bug#583585: Something like the following code snippet ?

2013-08-25 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: > The files must not be moved from the old dir to the new symlink-to-dir, > otherwise dpkg will lose track of them wrt to their canonical path, and And what about files which are not managed by dpkg? And files of other packages which are not upgraded

Bug#583585: Something like the following code snippet ?

2013-08-25 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 16:50:50 +0200, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > ok so I have maybe found something workable in shell code, but it will > be nice to have dpkg support for some operation: > - stat is not a portable posix command, i could emulate with some > creative thinking with ls -1 -l but it w

Bug#583585: Something like the following code snippet ?

2013-08-25 Thread bastien ROUCARIES
ok so I have maybe found something workable in shell code, but it will be nice to have dpkg support for some operation: - stat is not a portable posix command, i could emulate with some creative thinking with ls -1 -l but it will be not so portable - cmp is posix but is part of diffutils does it