On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 02:20:17PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > If I remember, dpkg does not like replacing a directory with a > > symlink. This may or may not still be the case. > > Ugh, you're right: [...] > I still think this is a good proposal -- if we could only fix dpkg to deal > with this better. > > Aha! > [..] > What I did here is a preinst that rmdir'd /foo/bar/baz. And that works > around the problem. I also tried it with files in the directory, if the > preinst rm -rf's the directory it works ok. You can also, as manoj suggested, put the symlink handling details in the postinst/prerm. By the time postinst is run, the directory has been removed. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * boren tosses matlab across the room and hopes it breaks into a number aproaching infinite peices
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