Re: Questions on packaging.

1998-11-15 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sun, 15 November 1998 14:20:49 -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > I should follow up that I downloaded and looked at Diablo > (but did not compile because I don't have xmake). dists/slink/main/binary-i386/devel/xmake_1.05-1.deb ,-) > Looking at the XMakefile.inc, it appears that the author specific

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 12:07:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know what you'd > use with shell if you needed an error code. ls -1 | grep .\* Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** http://www.iki.fi/gaia/> ** The FAQ is y

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread tmancill
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I need something that returns an error code if the directory is empty but > does return 0 if it is non-empty. $ dirname="whatever_you_want_to_check" $ count=$(ls -A1 $dirname 2>/dev/null | wc -l) $ echo $count I love shell... BTW, you need the /dev

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I need something that returns an error code if the directory is empty but | does return 0 if it is non-empty. I don't know how portable this is, but this seems to work for me in bash: test -d empty -a $(ls -l empty | wc -l) -eq 1 This returns 0 if "empt

Re: Questions on packaging.

1998-11-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
I should follow up that I downloaded and looked at Diablo (but did not compile because I don't have xmake). Looking at the XMakefile.inc, it appears that the author specifically disabled dynamic linking for GNU systems, but not for others. It would be worthwhile to contact the author to get his r

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread phumpherys
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:23:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > ls -1 > > May be I am missing something, but this does only affect the formatting of > the output of ls. -1 won't report . or .., but will return *nothing* of the directory

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:23:09AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ls -1 May be I am missing something, but this does only affect the formatting of the output of ls. I need something that returns an error code if the directory is empty but does return 0 if it is non-empty. > Marcus Brinkman

Re: Questions on packaging.

1998-11-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
Alexander Koch wrote: > G'Evening... > > I've several question and problems with a package I'm trying to build. > Well, here we go. > > 1. In the rules file some directories /var/run/diablo/, /var/spool/news/ >are 775 and not 755. How evil is that? Honestly I don't know whether >755 break

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread phumpherys
ls -1 (one) -- Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DriverSoft Unix Systems Administrator Mobile: +1.801.725.3257 WWW/PGPkeys: http://www.spire.com/~humphery Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a ce

Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, can someone give me a hint how I can efficient test if a certain directory is empty in the postrm (shell script)? Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god."Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org

Questions on packaging.

1998-11-15 Thread Alexander Koch
G'Evening... I've several question and problems with a package I'm trying to build. Well, here we go. 1. In the rules file some directories /var/run/diablo/, /var/spool/news/ are 775 and not 755. How evil is that? Honestly I don't know whether 755 breaks anything. And it already was like th