Re: Debian shishi package bug

[Simon Josefsson]

Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:

> Elrond <address@hidden> writes:
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:40:33AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>>> Ok, good.  There isn't a way to only make those parts of the package
>>> install process only apply to upgrades from 0.0.23-1, is there?
>
>>      dpkg --compare-version.
>>      grep compare-version /var/lib/dpkg/info/*
>
>> The later will flood you with hundreds of example usages.
>
> You can do something like this if you really want to, but I don't have
> 0.0.23-1 packages left to test it with any more and wouldn't want to use
> it without testing it.  I do know that what we have now works since I was
> able to test an upgrade from 0.0.23-1 with it.
>
> I'd rather just leave it alone for a few months and then drop it.

Agreed, that sounds easier.

> # Figure out if we're dealing with the possibly failing case.
> ignore=false
> if [ "$1" = "failed-upgrade" ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "0.0.24" ;
> then
>     ignore=true
> fi
>
> maybe_ignore_failure () {
>     status=$?
>     if [ "$ignore" = "true" ] ; then
>         true
>     else
>         exit "$status"
>     fi
> }
>
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>