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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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