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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Coreutils and installwatch
  • Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:58:46 +0100

Excerpts from Eric Sandall's message of Wed Feb 03 09:19:17 +0100 2010:
> So, coreutils 8.x breaks installwatch[0], but the latest installwatch
> is only included in checkinstall[1] and doesn't compile (out of the
> box). Shall I revert coreutils to 7.6 (quick fix) or work on fixing
> installwatch 0.7.0beta5 (not sure how long it'll take)?

If the reversion of coreutils to 7.6 doesn't cause other problems, we should
do
that. Then we have more time to check how to fix installwatch.

> This needs to be fixed soon as users in stable (I haven't checked how
> far back, but whenever coreutils 8.x hit stable) have symlinks not
> tracked which causes breakage (ifupdown, e2fsprogs, etc.).
>
> -sandalle
>
> [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15559
> [1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13873
>
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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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