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Re: Uhhhh - md5sum and full upgrade stuff seems broken??



On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:07:25PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> maybe one of the oldtimers here can enlighten me about this:
> 
> In tex-common.postinst we have things like
> 	old_ldat_md5sum=`md5sum /etc/texmf/language.dat`
> 	if [ ! "$old_ldat_md5sum" = fe9baf0768ade79a585a9df568dac5f6 ] 
> 	.....
> but that wil *never*never*never* work since md5sum returns
> 	<MD5 SUM>    <NAME>
> and not only ythe md5sum ...
> 
> Probably I lost something on the way, but this is not optimal ;-)

Oh yuck.  I have no idea what that's about.  Why would we *ever* want
to leave it present?

   Julian


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