Re: dpkg-statoverride sucks

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:52:31AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > Anyway, I tried also using dpkg-statoverride in postinst to set the mode for
> > /usr/lib/games/mirrormagic, not just /var/lib... and do get the same problem:
> > 
> > warning: --update given but /usr/lib/games/mirrormagic does not exist
> > 
> > So does that mean this part of the problem is a bug in dpkg-statoverride?
> 
> Clearly, yes:
> 
>         if ($doupdate) {
>             if (not -f $file) {
>                 print STDERR "warning: --update given but $file does not exist\n";
> 
> 
> If statoverride is meant to work on directories, that test is clearly wrong.
> 


I submitted a bug on it.  I guess it should just be (not -e $file) since $file
is supposed to be any filesystem object.

Drew

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