Re: Question about dpkg -r

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Hope Duryea <hope_duryea@yahoo.com> writes:

> The problem is my /usr is actually a symlink, and
> despite the fact that it has lots of files and other
> subdirs in it (in the real dir it's a link to, that
> is), dpkg -r does remove it. So I was trying to think
> of some way to prevent that happening.

% grep "^/usr$" /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | wc
    967     967   39465

That should most certainly not happen. Link or not link.

Anyway, use mount --bind or equivalent fstab entry.

MfG
        Goswin