On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > > mv: `/usr/lib/git-core/git-add.tmp' and `/usr/lib/git-core/git-add' are > > the same file
This was also reported by a user of the Ubuntu PPA: https://bugs.launchpad.net/911906 It seems mv -f refuses to replace a file with a symlink to the same inode (WTF?), so this part of the preinst doesn’t work: refinode=$(stat -c%i /usr/lib/git-core/git) for f in /usr/lib/git-core/*; do test "$f" != /usr/lib/git-core/git || continue rm -f "$f.tmp" inode=$(stat -c%i "$f") test "$inode" = "$refinode" || continue ln -s git "$f.tmp" mv -f "$f.tmp" "$f" done This isn’t a limitation of the rename() syscall, so one silly fix that preserves atomicity would be to invoke rename() from another language: - mv -f "$f.tmp" "$f" + perl -e 'rename($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1])' -- "$f.tmp" "$f" *whine* Anders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
