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Re: [PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep


On 23/11/2015 18:54, Achim Gratz wrote:
Jon Turney writes:
So, this is actually quite straightforward to write, and
/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.sh becomes the attached.

Can this be relied on for all possible file systems?

Not on FAT.  But then again, FAT is not really a filesystem, rather just
a failed try.

But yes, this does nothing useful if /usr/share/info is on a FAT
filesystem, as the mtime doesn't change.

So, should we try to guard against that (installations on a USB stick
are probably the only practical occurence these days)?  I wouldn't mind
if we just unconditionally rebuild on FAT(32).

Thinking this over, it doesn't seem that hard to use a hash to determine if the directory has changed.

How about the attached?

(This will add a dependency on diffutils for cmp)

Otherwise, it looks good and thanks for writing up a script.

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