dpkg (1.1.4); priority=MEDIUM

  * Allow overwriting of conflicting packages being removed.  (Bug#2614.)

  * a.out control file says Pre-Depends: libc4 | libc.  (Bug#2640.)
  * ELF control file and libc dependencies changed to use finalised scheme.
  * ELF control file and libc dependencies for i386 only.  (Bug#2617.)

  * Guidelines say use only released libraries and compilers.
  * Install wishlist as /usr/doc/dpkg/WISHLIST.
  * Remove spurious entries for Guidelines in info dir file.

  * dpkg-deb --build checks permissions on control (DEBIAN) directory.

  * Spaces in control file fields not copied by dpkg-split.  (Bug#2633.)
  * Spaces in split file part control data ignore.  (Bug#2633.)

  * Portability fixes, including patch from Richard Kettlewell.
  * Fixed minor configure.in bug causing mangled GCC -W options.

 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>  Thu, 4 Apr 1996 01:58:40 +0100

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mkinstalldirs b/mkinstalldirs
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0e2937731
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mkinstalldirs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Make directory hierarchy. 
+# Written by Noah Friedman <friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu>
+# Public domain.
+
+defaultIFS=' 	
+'
+IFS="${IFS-${defaultIFS}}"
+
+errstatus=0
+
+for file in ${1+"$@"} ; do 
+   oIFS="${IFS}"
+   # Some sh's can't handle IFS=/ for some reason.
+   IFS='%'
+   set - `echo ${file} | sed -e 's@/@%@g' -e 's@^%@/@'`
+   IFS="${oIFS}"
+
+   pathcomp=''
+
+   for d in ${1+"$@"} ; do
+     pathcomp="${pathcomp}${d}"
+
+     if test ! -d "${pathcomp}"; then
+        echo "mkdir $pathcomp" 1>&2
+        mkdir "${pathcomp}" || errstatus=$?
+     fi
+
+     pathcomp="${pathcomp}/"
+   done
+done
+
+exit $errstatus
+
+# eof