Re: Make dpkg following symlinks?
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:46:36AM -0400, Allover Stripes wrote:
> To clarify: I have several partitions. One is mounted on /, another
> on /antelope. /usr/local/dl and /home/allover/audio are symlinks to
> different directories under /antelope. I can't accurately predict
> their sizes, so it's not practical to have them on different
> partitions. If I later decide to move /usr/local/dl onto a third
> partition, and if Debian has resolved the realpath()s of any files on
> it, then Bad Things will happen.
Right, this must not happen under any circumstances.
The situation I was talking about is when you link parts of your filesystem
back into itself, for example:
. -> /usr
. -> /usr/X11R6
/lib -> /usr/lib
etc.
In this case, when files are moved, dpkg can get very confused.
Seperating this cases is not easy, though, and the gain is questionable. So
I will drop this idea until someone has better ideas about it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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