On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:51:47PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> > > 1. mv /usr/doc/* /usr/share/doc
>
> This isn't trivial, because you cannot be sure that /usr/doc and
> /usr/share/doc are located at the same filesystem.
> And don't miss the (few) packages which already moved to
> /usr/share/doc (where some of them left back a .dhelp file in
> /usr/doc/<package>).
read "mv" as "cp, verify success, rm old, create symlink, and the whole
time deal with things like dropped .dhelp files in /usr/doc while the rest
of the package has moved to /usr/share/doc already"
Not trivial. But if it were trivial we'd have done it already.
Fortunately if this script does something like lock the dpkg database
while it does this (a good idea since we're reading that) it should be
acceptable.
> So the above noted idea works when run by hand, but I'm not sure,
> whether a postinst script is able to do this job without problems on
> _every_ Debian system...
See above.
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