On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:02:02PM +1100, Peter Howard wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 14:28 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:49:49AM +1100, Peter Howard wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:44 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > here's a preinst which i think should accomplish this safely: ... > One possible addition. Even though it wasn't part of the problem for > this bug, what about checking that /usr/share/zoneminder itself is a > directory. I could imagine someone putting a link at that level as > well. shouldn't be necessary, since our package doesn't ship /usr/share/zoneminder as a symlink, it would leave the symlink alone and not break anything. > Also, the warning could add reference > to /usr/share/doc/zoneminder/README.Debian - I'll add the "alternate > mount" instructions with additional explanation to that file. thanks for adding that. this would only be of limited use, since the preinst will fail before the README.Debian is unpacked. it might just be confusing. i'll upload with those changes shortly. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org