Bug#637566: linux-2.6: Occasionally FTBFS: Race condition in building docs

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

tags 637566 + fixed-upstream
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Hi Daniel,

Daniel Schepler wrote:

[...]
> for dep in dvb media-entities.tmpl media-indices.tmpl v4l; do \
>                 rm -f /tmp/buildd/linux-2.6-3.0.0/debian/build/build-doc/Documentation/DocBook/$dep \
>                 && ln -s /tmp/buildd/linux-2.6-3.0.0/debian/build/source/Documentation/DocBook/$dep /tmp/buildd/linux-2.6-3.0.0/debian/build/build-doc/Documentation/DocBook/ \
>                 || exit; \
>         done
> ln: creating symbolic link `/tmp/buildd/linux-2.6-3.0.0/debian/build/build-doc/Documentation/DocBook/media-indices.tmpl': File exists

Thanks for reporting it.  I suspect this was fixed by
v3.1-rc1~116^2~429 ([media] DocBook: Add rules to auto-generate some
media docbook) which changed the "ln -s" to "ln -sf".