Re: Bug#148172: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread Joey Hess 
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
 The same goal can be achived with other commands or shell builtin.

Such as?

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Re: Bug#148172: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread Clint Adams 
 Such as?

test -x /usr/sbin/install-docs || echo hi

?


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Re: Bug#148172: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread Clint Adams 
 That's different and more fragile: it relies on a fixed path which
 command -v does not.

Is this important in the event that install-docs gets moved, or so that
someone can put a different install-docs in the PATH?


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Re: Bug#148172: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread Joey Hess 
Clint Adams wrote:
  Such as?
 
 test -x /usr/sbin/install-docs || echo hi

Personally, the only such paths I ever hard code are /etc, #!/bin/sh,
and #!/usr/bin/perl, and I've been thinking about using the env trick
for that last. ess hardcoded paths is good for flexability, and avoid
possible future nasty transitions if the file moves.

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Re: Bug#148172: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread David Schleef 
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:39:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
 Clint Adams wrote:
   Such as?
  
  test -x /usr/sbin/install-docs || echo hi
 
 Personally, the only such paths I ever hard code are /etc, #!/bin/sh,
 and #!/usr/bin/perl, and I've been thinking about using the env trick
 for that last. ess hardcoded paths is good for flexability, and avoid
 possible future nasty transitions if the file moves.


It also makes it easier to do Stupid Package Tricks like post-
processing packages to install into /opt/debian/ (on a non-Debian
system, of course), where the path is /opt/debian/bin:/opt/debian/usr/bin.

Yes, I've tried this.  (I claim no sanity.)  No, this doesn't work
even remotely well right now.  But it may be interesting in the
distant future, given how well dpkg-cross works.



dave...


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