Hey Guys,

On Nov 24 19:44, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
> >> So, should we try to guard against that (installations on a USB stick
> >> are probably the only practical occurence these days)?  I wouldn't mind
> >> if we just unconditionally rebuild on FAT(32).
> >
> > Thinking this over, it doesn't seem that hard to use a hash to
> > determine if the directory has changed.
> 
> As I said before, if you're going that route I'd rather do the same
> thing as for autorebase and maintain a list of info files.  This way you
> could remove and add individual info files rather than just rebuilding
> everything, just the way post-install works on Linux in this case.
> 
> > How about the attached?
> >
> > (This will add a dependency on diffutils for cmp)
> 
> You could read the md5sums into variables instead and just compare the
> resulting strings within bash.  Otherwise we'd have to add diffutils to
> the Base category.
> 
> >> Otherwise, it looks good and thanks for writing up a script.
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> 
> Use /bin/dash if possible.

I trust both of you to do the right thing.  My question here is only,
can we get a solution soon so we can get rid of the old upset method for
the info files?  Achim, how long would it take to create the same
solution for info you're using for rebase?  Would it make sense to use
Jon's solution in the interim?


Thanks,
Corinna

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