On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 10:20:16AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:51:29PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Since this has always worked before I believe this is a bug in dpkg-divert. > > If you believe inews is using dpkg-divert incorrectly, please suggest > > an alternative solution. > > No, it is a bug in dpkg-divert that was introduced with some code that is > supposed to check write permissions to the divert locations (so it can > fail and not proceed to change the diversion registry, in the case of ro > file systems and such). I'll have it fixed for 1.4.1.19 which should be > uploaded tonight by Wichert.
Great, thanks. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
