Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not surprising: From the preinst code:
I didn't look at the full code (need to start preparing dinner for a hungry wife), but from what you cite I don't understand the problem. > check_move $conf_oldpath $cfgfile $version > > -> check_move > if [ -r "$orig" ] ; then > mdorig=$(dpkg_md5sum "$orig") > > -> dpkg_md5sum > md5sum=$(grep "$file[[:space:]]" /var/lib/dpkg/status | cut -f 3 -d ' ') > if [ -z "$md5sum" ]; then > echo "$file: md5sum not known. Exiting" >&2 > exit 1 > > Now of course this file didn't exist before ... If this file doesn't exist, the test in check_move will fail (-r $orig), and consequently dpkg_md5sum shouldn't be called at all. How is it possible that the file is actually there, but not as a conffile? > Examining check_move we should do: > Current version: > if [ -r "$orig" ] ; then > mdorig=$(dpkg_md5sum "$orig") > if [ $(md5sum "$orig" | cut -f 1 -d ' ') = "$mdorig" ] ; then > rm "$orig" > else > mkdir -p $(dirname "$new") > mv "$orig" "$new".preinst-copy > fi It doesn't hurt to do it that way. And it's safer, in case it's not a single user's misconfiguration, but some special (ubuntu?) version which put the file there as a non-conffile. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- texlive-base-bin uninstallable: md5sums unknown https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
