fcopy feature request: report if a file was copied

Janning Vygen vygen at planwerk6.de
Wed Dec 6 16:54:18 CET 2006


Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 16:46 schrieb Janning Vygen:
> Am Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 16:13 schrieb Michael Tautschnig:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > as i use softupdate a lot , it would be nice to have a fcopy feature
> > > which reports if any files or file permissions were changed. Look at my
> > > script in BASE/50-ntp
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I guess postinst is what you really want (and it is already there, after
> > all). See the man page.
>
> you are right, but
>
> - postinst is called for every file which is copied

sorry, i clicked return-enter to early. my second reason why i don't like 
postinst:

- its more transparent to have it inside the script which fcopies the files.

kind regards
janning



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