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Re: disappearing symlinks



This was obviously related to my "ancient" dpkg package. With a recent
one this doesn't seem to be a problem anymore(for whatever reason).
 -- Guido

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:56:07PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> Hi,
> when installing packages in my glibc2.2-chroot environment I sometimes
> see the following:
> 
> bert:/autobuild/tmp# dpkg -i autoconf_2.13-22.deb 
> (Reading database ... 3776 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking autoconf (from autoconf_2.13-22.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing autoconf_2.13-22.deb (--install):
>  error setting ownership of symlink `usr/share/autoconf/acconfig.h': No
>  such file or directory
> 
> But when I unpack the deb by hand(ar/tar) the link there. This happens
> with symlinks in quiet a lot of packages(both from ftp.debian.org and
> self compile). Any ideas?
> Regards,
>  -- Guido
> 
> 
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