Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > [1st issue - dpkg symlink bug workaround] > > On 2005-05-18 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Quoting sean finney <seanius@debian.org>: >><SNIP> >> >>>so at this point, we're not sure what to do to cover this last problem, >>>as we have no guarantee the preinst of mysql-server-4.1 will even run >>>before mysql-server/woody is removed. the only fix we can think of is >>>to remove the two directories from the files.list of the woody package. >>> >>>so we've come up with three options, none of which are great: >>> >> >><SNIP> >> >>I may be misunderstanding what you are saying. But, I think that if you >>create a package called mysql-server-4.1-upgrage (or something else >>suitable) and then you make you make mysql-server-4.1 predepend on it, then >>mysql-server-4.1-upgrade can check for the existence of the symlinks. > > > No, predepends can be used to ensure that some other package has already > been completely installed i.e. postinst had been executed before the > depending package even gets unpackaged. > But that won't help here. apt-get calculates that mysql-server (3.23) has > to be removed in order to get mysql-server-4.1 installed so it would first > completely remove mysql-server (3.23) and *then* maybe install your > temporary package which would be as useless as our current preinst hack. > OK. I misunderstood then. Thanks for the clarification. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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