On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 03:04:36PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: > >> 30 packages have it right. 202 have it wrong. >> >> This suggests to me that relying on a manual system is not working. > >Point taken. However in the vast majority of those cases the >topological order is not significantly adversely affected, it's only a >select few (or one?) packages that are at issue.
If the one is _update-info-dir then it already relies on bash and I changed the postinstall script to use /bin/bash rather than /bin/sh. >As a short term fix if we can correct those errant few that do actually >cause a scratch install to go off the rails I think we should do that >since it's such an easy fix that requires no releasing or upgrading >anything. Yes, especially since these are real problems that, IMO, really should be fixed. I keep hoping that I will eventually fix my package lint script and move towards a staged implementation for installing packages such that packages don't show up in the release directory until they have been verified ok. I did start working on this a while ago but it's time to finish it. cgf