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Re: [branden: Re: Bug#24853 acknowledged by developer (I have a "doc"



kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)  wrote on 26.07.98 in <[🔎] 6yaNaORXw-B@khms.westfalen.de>:

> branden@purdue.edu (Branden Robinson)  wrote on 25.07.98 in
> <[🔎] 19980725001259.A327@purdue.edu>:
>
> > > % ls -al /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc
> > > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           16 Jul 24 09:40
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc -> ../../../doc/X11
>
> > one respect to the package, and if you didn't have /usr/X11R6 mounted from
> > a different device they'd work fine.
>
> Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see how this works. Mount points should not
> make a difference here. ".." for a mount point is exactly the same as in
> the middle of a file system.

Just had it happen to me. Symptoms: /usr/doc/X11 is empty, the symlink is  
ok.

After looking through the scripts, I'm almost positive that the problem is  
with the preinst script. For reasons I don't quite understand, this one  
seems to blow away those files.

My understanding is that we're changing from

/usr/doc/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc

to

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc -> /usr/doc/X11

Right?

I suspect that the old symlink is still there during unpacking, or  
something like that.

MfG Kai


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