Re: transition from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc

[Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@lcisp.com>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:13:14PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:16:02AM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > Yes. I'm afraid I used a confusing wording. What I meant was that I wanted to
> > make the packages do the transition from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, not that
> > I wanted to stop creating the symlink. In fact, I *want* it to create the
> > symlink, but it seems like it doesn't:
> > 
> > cybrdemo@carlos:~$ ls -ld /usr/doc/ibrazilian/
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 30 00:12 /usr/doc/ibrazilian/
> > cybrdemo@carlos:~$ 
> > 
> > I'm beginning to get annoyed :(
> 
> ls -ld doesn't tell you if a file is a symlink; run `ls -l /usr/doc`
> instead. I just installed your package and it is a symlink not a directory:
> 
Actually ls -ld works fine, providing you leave off the trailing /.
$ls -ld /usr/doc/gcc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Mar 29 18:31 /usr/doc/gcc ->
../share/doc/gcc
$ls -ld /usr/doc/gcc/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Mar 29 18:31 /usr/doc/gcc/

> elroy:/home/hgebel/src/dpkg# ls -ld /usr/doc/ibrazilian/
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Mar 30 13:04 /usr/doc/ibrazilian/
> elroy:/home/hgebel/src/dpkg# ls -l /usr/doc/ | grep ibrazilian
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Mar 30 13:04 ibrazilian -> ../share/doc/ibrazilian


HTH

Gordon Sadler