Re: file ordering in packages

Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > The packaging manual should have text explaining what rules dpkg-deb uses > for ordering, so people know what to expect. It should not, if anything it should be in a dpkg reference manual. Wichert. --

Re: file ordering in packages

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Starting with dpkg 1.7.0 this is no longer necessary since dpkg-deb > will reorder the files itself. The text in the packaging manual > should be update to be something like: The packaging manual should have text explaining what rules dpkg-deb uses

file ordering in packages

I'm not sure if I submitted this as a bugreport yet, and I don't have net access right now. However: the current documentation states that packages need to create symlinks after their targets. Unfortunately that only works on filesystems for which dirent ordering is chronological and if packages