1 #!/bin/bash
  2
  3 alternatives_path="/etc/alternatives"
  4 tool_bin="/home/user/tools/bin"
  5
  6 for file in $( ls $1 );
  7 do
  8
  9 #
 10 # apparently there are quite some differences between 1.14.31 (lenny) and 1.15.8.11 (squeeze)
 11
 12 # todo:
 13 #   check if --log is supported,
 14 #       send log to /var/log/update-alternatives
 15 #   check exit status of /usr/bin/update-alternatives
 16 #       what for? what do we wanna catch?
 17 #
 18     /usr/bin/update-alternatives --quiet --install $tools_bin/$file $file $1/$file 10 &> /dev/null;
 19     if [ -e $alternatives_path/$file.dpkg-tmp ]; then
 20         mv $alternatives_path/$file.dpkg-tmp $alternatives_path/$file;
 21     fi;
 22
 23 done
 24
 25