Re: coreutils 8.x causes installwatch to not track symlinks

[Eric Sandall]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 01:44:57 +0000 (GMT)
Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> > With coreutils 8.x (8.0 through 8.4) using installwatch to track
> > files breaks on symlinks. See
> > http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15559 for more details.
> > Reverting to coreutils 7.6 allows installwatch to again track
> > symlinks.
> 
> Reading through that bug report and the homepage of CheckInstall it 
> appears the breakage was caused by not supporting the various *at 
> syscalls which coreutils now uses, and that a fixed version was
> released on 2009-12-26. Does this new version work for you?

Thanks Eric B. and Philip. That info was added after I sent the e-mail,
one of our developers found it and added it. :) We'll work on getting
checkinstall's installwatch 0.7beta5 to compile as it has issues at the
moment.

-sandalle

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