On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:32:33PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > > Possibly I'm just misunderstanding what you're suggesting should be done
> > > > though. Can you give a sequence of commands that does whatever you're
> > > > suggesting, and still has those three packages survive unscathed?
> > > That's simple enough.
> > Then please give a concrete example, with actual .debs and actual shell
> > commands.
> I'm not going to do debs at this point. (It won't work anyway, because
> of /usr/share/doc)
So make some fake debs that use /my_usr/share/doc and show that upgrading
and everything actually works. Heck, I've already given you some sample
debs that do this.
> I also don't know how to do it as a shell script,
> because gnu mv is horribly broken. Here's a C snippit:
> main() {
> rename("/usr/doc","/usr/share/doc");
> symlink("/usr/share/doc","/usr/doc");
> symlink("/usr/doc","/usr/share/doc");
> }
This is broken and doesn't work. You've already had three concrete
demonstrations of this.
Sheesh.
Cheers,
aj
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