Bug#362885: closed by David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> (Re: Bug#362885: x11-common: unable to upgrade, rmdir: /usr/X11R6/bin: Directory not empty)
On 2006-05-15 09:06:33 +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> - present a list to the user, saying what the remaining files are and
> where they do come from (package names to be easily removed by $user)
The user can remove these packages. But this is not sufficient,
as the user could re-add them later. For instance:
$ ll /usr/X11R6
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-05-15 04:37:15 bin -> /usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 15:53:51 include/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 16:01:19 lib/
# dpkg -i opera_9.0-20060411.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386.deb
$ ll /usr/X11R6
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2006-05-15 04:37:15 bin -> /usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 15:53:51 include/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 16:01:19 lib/
At this point there's no problem. But:
# dpkg --purge opera
$ ll /usr/X11R6
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 15:53:51 include/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 16:01:19 lib/
The symbolic link has disappeared. IMHO, the problem is that x11-common
doesn't contain a reference to it, so that dpkg thinks that this symlink
is no longer useful. I don't know if this is true or not. But this will
make upgrades fail:
# dpkg -i opera_9.0-20060411.6-shared-qt_en_etch_i386.deb
$ ll /usr/X11R6
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-05-15 11:30:31 bin/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 15:53:51 include/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-04 16:01:19 lib/
And the next x11-common upgrade will complain that /usr/X11R6/bin is
not empty.
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