Bug#161978: general: /usr/share as a symlink breaks EVERYTHING, but only sometimes
Package: general
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-09-22
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Hey,
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?
Slowly getting the hang of this...
Thanks,
Tyler
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux yi 2.2.19 #1 Sat Jun 9 14:48:14 EST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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