[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#273092: Tweak for /alsa-base.conf: 'cat' to 'cp -L'

[A Costa]

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Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.6a-1
Severity: wishlist


It says in the latest changelog:

    - alsa-base.postinst
	...
      + Use cat instead of cp in order to handle the case
        where people have replaced conf files by symlinks

...and the new code shows:

	% grep -n cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/alsa-base.postinst
	20:             cat "$old_conf_filename" > /etc/default/alsa
	25:         cat /usr/share/alsa-base/alsa-base.conf > /etc/default/alsa

However, for following symlinks 'cp -L' is better.  The 'cp'
man page says:

       -L, --dereference
              always follow symbolic links

Attached is a 'diff' file.  Hope this helps...





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.6-2    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                       1.4.36     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.10.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre5-7 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1   Linux module utilities
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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20c20
< 		cat "$old_conf_filename" > /etc/default/alsa
---
> 		cp -L "$old_conf_filename"  /etc/default/alsa
25c25
< 	    cat /usr/share/alsa-base/alsa-base.conf > /etc/default/alsa
---
> 	    cp -L /usr/share/alsa-base/alsa-base.conf  /etc/default/alsa

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