Hallo Norbert, this mail is marked as "answer-awaiting" ;-) for some time now. I think there's already working code in the package, but could you nevertheless have a look? Fullquote follows...
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is not surprising: From the preinst code: > > I didn't look at the full code (need to start preparing dinner for a > hungry wife), but from what you cite I don't understand the problem. > >> check_move $conf_oldpath $cfgfile $version >> >> -> check_move >> if [ -r "$orig" ] ; then >> mdorig=$(dpkg_md5sum "$orig") >> >> -> dpkg_md5sum >> md5sum=$(grep "$file[[:space:]]" /var/lib/dpkg/status | cut -f 3 -d ' ') >> if [ -z "$md5sum" ]; then >> echo "$file: md5sum not known. Exiting" >&2 >> exit 1 >> >> Now of course this file didn't exist before ... > > If this file doesn't exist, the test in check_move will fail (-r $orig), > and consequently dpkg_md5sum shouldn't be called at all. How is it > possible that the file is actually there, but not as a conffile? > >> Examining check_move we should do: >> Current version: >> if [ -r "$orig" ] ; then >> mdorig=$(dpkg_md5sum "$orig") >> if [ $(md5sum "$orig" | cut -f 1 -d ' ') = "$mdorig" ] ; then >> rm "$orig" >> else >> mkdir -p $(dirname "$new") >> mv "$orig" "$new".preinst-copy >> fi > > It doesn't hurt to do it that way. And it's safer, in case it's not a > single user's misconfiguration, but some special (ubuntu?) version which > put the file there as a non-conffile. > > Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- texlive-base-bin uninstallable: md5sums unknown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
