I think what you want is described in the "dpkg programmers manual": A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic links to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if there is one. So, the symlink needs to exist _before_ the unpack takes place. I solved this in a similar package with iraf-dev Pre-Depends on iraf. iraf contains the symlink, and this prevents iraf-dev from being unpacked until iraf is unpacked, and the symlink is in place. On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:41:04PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Hi, > > I think I have raised this somewhere before, but I can't remember or > find it in the list archives. In the tetex-bin package, there is a > symlink: > > /usr/share/texmf/web2c --> /var/lib/texmf/web2c > > Now I want to make /usr/share/texmf/web2c an ordinary directory with > some static files in it, while /var/lib/texmf/web2c will still be found > by TeX because of a configuration change. But I encounter a strange > problem: -- Justin apt-get install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor latex-astro wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/
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