I finally tracked down the problem I've occasionally had with shared libraries mysteriously disappearing after upgrading packages. As I suspected, it was due to an undesired interaction between dpkg (which was renaming files) and ldconfig (which was removing stale symlinks).
The easiest solution I came up with was to only run ldconfig from postinst scripts and not from postrm scripts. The only disadvantage I can see from doing this is that a stale link and an outdated entry in ld.so.cache may get left behind if the package is removed instead of upgraded. Both of these are harmless and will be automatically cleaned up the next time ldconfig is run. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081
