Josip Rodin wrote:
I don't understand. "dpkg --remove libc6-dev" *does* remove the /usr/include/asm/arch directory (and its parent too). But with that directory in existence (i.e., with the old package installed, not removed), "dpkg --install libc6-dev_2.2.5-13_arm.deb" does *not* remove the directory and replace it with the symlink in the new package as it should.On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 04:58:46PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:I won't reopen the bug, but *please* reconsider and reopen it yourself, I'm pretty sure this is not the way it's supposed to work.dpkg doesn't know or doesn't have a guarantee that there isn't actually anything within the directory that you want to remove, so it doesn't try it.
So --remove knows to remove the directory (knows that there isn't anything there and that it's unique to this package) and a subsequent --install succeeds. But upgrade fails, and causes breakage if something with the same name was supposed to replace the directory. How is this not a bug?
So upgrading doesn't remove *any* directories while upgrading? I'm curious, why not just do the --remove and --install, is there such a big performance hit associated with removing and creating directories?Arguably it could go check, but I guess there's a reason against that if nobody did that yet.
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