Re: Changing directory to symlink

[racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg Racke)]

Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:

> Ah, wait, I remember why. dpkg extract the new archive, then moves it
> into place when it is completely extracted. So it uses the already
> existing directory and can't change it into a symlink. The only way to
> work around it would be to remove all the files in the preinst.

OK, thanks. Is this behaviour documented anywhere ?

Ciao
        Racke

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