Bug#222251: marked as done (/usr/sbin/dpkg-divert: refuses diverting of symlinks pointing on a directory)
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Subject: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert: refuses diverting of symlinks pointing on a directory
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.18
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
Tags: Patch
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2003-11-17 23:18 /usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html -> ../python/python-policy.html
# dpkg-divert --package python --rename /usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html
dpkg-divert: Cannot divert directories
As you can see dpkg-divert refuses diverting of a symlink that points on
a directory.
--- /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert 2003-10-27 20:45:09.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/dpkg-divert 2003-11-26 21:22:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
$file= $ARGV[0];
$file =~ m#^/# || &badusage("filename \"$file\" is not absolute");
$file =~ m/\n/ && &badusage("file may not contain newlines");
- -d $file && &badusage("Cannot divert directories");
+ -d $file && ! -s $file && &badusage("Cannot divert directories");
$divertto= "$file.distrib" unless defined($divertto);
$divertto =~ m#^/# || &badusage("filename \"$divertto\" is not absolute");
$package= ':' unless defined($package);
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux joerg 2.6.0-test9 #2 Sun Nov 2 00:36:03 MET 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.18 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Subject: Re: Bug#222251: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert: refuses diverting of symlinks
pointing on a directory
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, J=F6rgSommer wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.10.18
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert
> Tags: Patch
>
> $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2003-11-17 23:18 /usr/share/do=
c/python2.3/python-policy.html -> ../python/python-policy.html
> # dpkg-divert --package python --rename /usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-p=
olicy.html
> dpkg-divert: Cannot divert directories
>
> As you can see dpkg-divert refuses diverting of a symlink that points on
> a directory.
Because you can't divert directories either.
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