Your message dated Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:53:58 -0800 (PST) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line To claim email us on, [email protected] your name & PIN 0510ST to redeem. has caused the Debian Bug report #79941, regarding [U-A] update-alternatives: user alternatives to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.7.2 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives Below is a small path and a small shell script which will from now on use ~/.alternatives/<prog> if its available and fallback to /etc/alternatives/<prog> if not. WARNING: I'm assuming that e.g. /usr/bin/foo will allways link to /etc/alternatives/foo, if some foo links to /etc/alternatives/bar this will break on the next update. --------------------[ update-alternatives patch ]--------------------- --- /usr/sbin/update-alternatives.orig Sun Dec 10 22:50:50 2000 +++ update-alternatives Sun Dec 10 23:35:08 2000 @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ sub quit { print STDERR "update-alternatives: @_\n"; exit(2); } sub badusage { print STDERR "update-alternatives: @_\n\n"; &usageversion; exit(2); } +$alternative_prog='/bin/alternatives'; $altdir= '/etc/alternatives'; $admindir="/var/lib/dpkg" . '/alternatives'; $testmode= 0; @@ -271,6 +272,18 @@ &quit("unable to rename $link to $alink: $!"); } $link= $alink; + if (!defined($linkname= readlink($link)) && $! != &ENOENT) { + &pr("warning: $link is supposed to be a symlink to $alternative_prog\n". + " (or nonexistent); however, readlink failed: $!") + if $verbosemode > 0; + } elsif ($linkname ne "$alternative_prog") { + unlink("$link.dpkg-tmp") || $! == &ENOENT || + &quit("unable to ensure $link.dpkg-tmp nonexistent: $!"); + symlink("$alternative_prog","$link.dpkg-tmp") || + &quit("unable to make $link.dpkg-tmp a symlink to $altdir/$name: $!"); + rename_mv("$link.dpkg-tmp",$link) || + &quit("unable to install $link.dpkg-tmp as $link: $!"); + } if (!defined($i= $versionnum{$apath})) { push(@versions,$apath); $versionnum{$apath}= $i= $#versions; @@ -404,13 +417,13 @@ exit(0); } else { if (!defined($linkname= readlink($link)) && $! != &ENOENT) { - &pr("warning: $link is supposed to be a symlink to $altdir/$name\n". + &pr("warning: $link is supposed to be a symlink to $alternative_prog\n". " (or nonexistent); however, readlink failed: $!") if $verbosemode > 0; - } elsif ($linkname ne "$altdir/$name") { + } elsif ($linkname ne "$alternative_prog") { unlink("$link.dpkg-tmp") || $! == &ENOENT || &quit("unable to ensure $link.dpkg-tmp nonexistent: $!"); - symlink("$altdir/$name","$link.dpkg-tmp") || + symlink("$alternative_prog","$link.dpkg-tmp") || &quit("unable to make $link.dpkg-tmp a symlink to $altdir/$name: $!"); rename_mv("$link.dpkg-tmp",$link) || &quit("unable to install $link.dpkg-tmp as $link: $!"); ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------[ /bin/alternatives ]------------------------- #!/bin/sh PROG="`basename "$0"`" if [ -e "$HOME/.alternatives/$PROG" ]; then exec ~/.alternatives/$PROG "$@" echo "WARNING: invalid user alternative defined for $PROG!" fi if [ -e "/etc/alternatives/$PROG" ]; then exec /etc/alternatives/$PROG "$@" echo "WARNING: invalid system alternative defined for $PROG!" fi echo "ERROR: no valid alternative defined for $PROG!" exit 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MfG Goswin -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dual 2.2.17 #1 SMP Mon Sep 4 06:13:20 CEST 2000 i686 Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.2-18 The GNU stdc++ library
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