Bug#297614: marked as done (tetex-base: symlink to directory replaced by directory in package)
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.27
Severity: important
When upgrading tetex-base from 2.0.2c-6 to 3.0-0.4 (which is currently
only at
deb http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0 experimental main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0 experimental main
) dpkg makes circular symlinks out of ordinary conffiles. These files
are just ordinary files in 2.0.2c-6, and are unchanged at the same
place in 3.0-0.4, as can be seen by un-ar'ing and un-tar'ing the deb.
dpkg itself complains about this - the ls is from the preinst script:
+ ls -l /etc/texmf/platex/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4447 2003-01-30 12:10 hyphen.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2113 2005-02-24 17:58 language.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 2001-06-05 20:18 platex.ini
Unpacking replacement tetex-base ...
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/lib/texmf/dvips': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/texmf/pdftex': Directory not empty
Setting up tetex-base (3.0-0.4) ...
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/platex/language.dat' is a circular link
(= `/etc/texmf/platex/language.dat')
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg' is a circular link
(= `/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg')
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.cfg' is a circular link
(= `/etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.cfg')
When I try to debug this with "--debug=22" in apt.conf.d/98debug, I
don't seem to get useful information, but dpkg segfaults (this is
probably the same as #173975). We can provide a typescript of the
debug run, as well as an 8MByte core.
Regards, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.27 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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To: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug#297614: dpkg: dpkg makes conffiles to circular symlinks
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Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:
> You can't replace symlinks to directories with symlinks with dpkg alone
> (to preserve user filesystem/drive arrangement), and this is explicitly
> mentioned in policy.
I knew, and I already do the usual preinst-postinst-postrm stuff stolen
from the X packages for some other directories, but missed it here.=20=20
Sorry for the confusion,=20
Frank
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Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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