Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.21
Severity: normal
Hi,
I noticed that dpkg does not support .deb packages that try to install
a symbolic link over a regular file.
The test package in my case is gzip, which has these contents:
$ dpkg --contents '../gzip_1.3.5-13_i386.deb'
[...]
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-06 23:38:54 ./bin/gunzip link to
./bin/gzip
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-06 23:38:54 ./bin/zcat link to ./bin/gzip
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-06 23:38:51 ./bin/zcmp link to
./bin/zdiff
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-06 23:38:51 ./bin/zegrep link to
./bin/zgrep
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-06 23:38:51 ./bin/zfgrep link to
./bin/zgrep
hrwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-06-06 23:38:54 ./bin/uncompress link to
./bin/gzip
[...]
The current situation however (before and after installing the above
package) is this:
$ ls -al /bin/{gunzip,zcat,zcmp,zegrep,zfgrep,uncompress}
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 53664 2006-06-06 23:38 /bin/gunzip
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 53664 2006-06-06 23:38 /bin/uncompress
-rwxr-xr-x 4 root root 53664 2006-06-06 23:38 /bin/zcat
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1974 2006-06-06 23:38 /bin/zcmp
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3018 2006-06-06 23:38 /bin/zegrep
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3018 2006-06-06 23:38 /bin/zfgrep
So the symbolic links did not install correctly.
Instead it seems the target files were copied to the symlink locations.
Regards,
Bastian
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