Bug#161978: general: /usr/share as a symlink breaks EVERYTHING, but only sometimes
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 18:29:02 +1000
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:15:57PM -0700, Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald
> wrote:
> > Nobody ever told me that I couldn't have /usr/share as a symlink. And
> > sure
> > enough, my /usr partition ran out of space and I had plenty free on
> > /var. So what did (possibly stupid) me do? I moved /usr/share to
> > /var/usr:share and symlinked it up in /usr. Everything was working
> > great for a few weeks. Then one day, *some* package (probably a core
> > one, but I have no idea what) REMOVED my symlink and replaced it with
> > a new directory entry. Of course, that caused perl to break, which, in
> > turn, caused everything else to fall apart. :-( Is it possible for the
> > debian system to be a bit more symlink-friendly?
>
> My /usr/local symlinks still disappear occasionally too. I could never
> work out which package was doing it though.
>
If you unpack a package with dpkg-deb it will overwrite symlinks (and
other files).
Glenn
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