[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug in postinst

[Nico Golde]

Hallo Héctor,

* Héctor García <hector at debian.org> [2005-11-14 16:18]:
> El lun, 14-11-2005 a las 15:37 +0100, Nico Golde escribió:
[...] 
> > > fixing a bug in fetchmail.postinst, there was an extra ! which made the
> > > check wrong and impossible
> > 
> > Sure? I mean this means if /var/run/fetchmail does not 
> > exist.
> 
> Well, just after executing 
> [ -d /var/run/fetchmail ] || mkdir -p /var/run/fetchmail
> /var/run/fetchmail must exits or the script will die (ex: no permision
> while creating it, /var/run/fetchmail existed but was a file instead of
> a dir (should we check that?)

Ah ok now I see what you mean ok, so your fix sounds good.

> Even if it did not exits the check was really weird.
> If the dir doesn't exits go ahead and change its permisions (the script
> would die in pain here)
> 
> >From bash man page:
> 	-d file
>               True if file exists and is a directory.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> Of course, I tested it and in the first case commands were not executed
> while installing the package and they are executed correctly after the
> patch.

Ok, so commit patch to svn.
Regards Nico
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