Re: Uhhhh - md5sum and full upgrade stuff seems broken??
Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> writes:
> 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?
I could speculate: This once was in the preinst file and we expected the
file to be later removed by dpkg?
But anyway this doesn't matter, since sarge and woody are
stone-old. Just remove the code.
Regards, Frank
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