On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:13:14PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:16:02AM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: > > Yes. I'm afraid I used a confusing wording. What I meant was that I wanted > > to > > make the packages do the transition from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, not > > that > > I wanted to stop creating the symlink. In fact, I *want* it to create the > > symlink, but it seems like it doesn't: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /usr/doc/ibrazilian/ > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 30 00:12 /usr/doc/ibrazilian/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > > > I'm beginning to get annoyed :( > > ls -ld doesn't tell you if a file is a symlink; run `ls -l /usr/doc` > instead. I just installed your package and it is a symlink not a directory: > Actually ls -ld works fine, providing you leave off the trailing /. $ls -ld /usr/doc/gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 29 18:31 /usr/doc/gcc -> ../share/doc/gcc $ls -ld /usr/doc/gcc/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 29 18:31 /usr/doc/gcc/
> elroy:/home/hgebel/src/dpkg# ls -ld /usr/doc/ibrazilian/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 30 13:04 /usr/doc/ibrazilian/ > elroy:/home/hgebel/src/dpkg# ls -l /usr/doc/ | grep ibrazilian > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 30 13:04 ibrazilian -> > ../share/doc/ibrazilian HTH Gordon Sadler