On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:15:38PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:13:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:49AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > diversions are far from being atomic. > > True, but it is persistent across upgrades and doesn't require any > > particular support from the package.
> Is it a bug (or a missing feature) that diversions aren't atomic? Maybe, but I'm not sure it can be fixed without the declarative diversions that were mentioned on the list a bit back? > The --rename option to dpkg-divert means it can be done atomically if > dpkg-divert is clever enough, at least in all the ways that count. This only lets you move /bin/sh to /bin/sh.frisbee as an atomic operation. It doesn't let you create the new /bin/sh at the same time, that only happens when the package is unpacked, which happens much later than the preinst. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
