Debian Bug report logs - #15332
FIXED in NMU [was: fix for update-alternatives --altdir & --admindir]

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:54:25 +0000

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.3
Severity: normal

The --altdir and --admindir options to update-alternatives do not
work.  Here's a fix; it was just a typo:

--- /usr/sbin/update-alternatives	Sun Oct  5 21:14:24 1997
+++ ./update-alternatives	Thu Nov 27 16:15:02 1997
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@
         $aslavelink{$sname}= $slink;
         $aslavepath{$sname}= $spath;
     } elsif (m/^--altdir$/) {
-        @ARGV && &badusage("--altdir needs a <directory> argument");
+        @ARGV || &badusage("--altdir needs a <directory> argument");
         $altdir= shift(@ARGV);
     } elsif (m/^--admindir$/) {
-        @ARGV && &badusage("--admindir needs a <directory> argument");
+        @ARGV || &badusage("--admindir needs a <directory> argument");
         $admindir= shift(@ARGV);
     } else {
         &badusage("unknown option \`$_'");

I discovered this when I started to write a man page for
update-alternatives.  I thought I'd better check with you that no-one
else is writing one already?

-- 
Charles Briscoe-Smith
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