Re: Merging three direcories in postinst

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Joachim Breitner writes ("Re: Merging three direcories in postinst"):
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2011, 13:35 +0100 schrieb Ian Jackson:
> > > I guess I?ll give the postinst-symlink-approach a shot.
> > 
> > Do come back when you have more final-looking code and I'll see if I
> > can find bugs in it :-).
> 
> I implemented it and did some tests. I did not test aborting it halfway,
> but I?m confident that it is ok ? the moving of files can be continued.
> Only an abortion between rmdir and ln would be bad.
> 
> The postinst is here:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/ghc/ghc-doc.postinst.in

Are you sure this is the version you tested ?  Your tests don't seem
to have been very comprehensive ...

I see this:
   find $path -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -r mv /usr/lib/ghc-doc/haddock/
which doesn't look like it will do what you want!

Ian.