On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 12:46:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Then please provide a test3 .deb that *does* work. Simply getting rid of > all the /my_usr/doc references in test3 is *not* enough. > > * install test3_2.0_all.deb > * note that /my_usr contains /my_usr/share but not /my_usr/doc > * ln -s share/doc /my_usr/doc > * dpkg -i test1_1.0_all.deb > * dpkg -i test1_2.0_all.deb > * Notice dpkg complains and that /my_usr/share/doc/test1 is now empty, > while dpkg -L test1 says it shouldn't be. I've completely lost track of what you're doing at this point. I'll submit this, though: I moved /usr/share/doc out of the way and did the move-doc-to-share/doc-and-symlink-usr/doc thing. I installed some packages and removed some packages. Everything seems to be fine. What _is_ the failure case here? Mike Stone
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