Re: dpkg and a symlink that gets a directory

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> schrieb:

> 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.

Ah, thank you. I think this should be in policy.

So then I know that it is necessary and correct to remove the existing
symlink from the old package in preinst. But I'd still like to know what
the error message during dpkg unpack phase is:

rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/texmf/web2c': Is a directory


Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie