Hi, I am currently working on a package that needs to mimic sysvinit's symlink farm. I have a bunch of scripts put into /etc/network/if.d which are in turn symlinked to /etc/network/if-$NAME.d for different values of $NAME.
I'd like to have the symlinks in the package as conffiles, but dpkg doesn't seem to like that. The symlinks are not unpacked. After playing with dpkg --unpack and manually configuring the package I suspect the following: - dpkg unpacks conffiles with the file name suffix dpkg-new - It then deletes all stale symlinks - and then renames foo.dpkg-new to foo after resolving conflicts Since the unpacked symlinks point to the unsuffixed file name, they are all considered stale and deleted. Is there a recommended way to handle this? I'd like to avoid shipping a symlink list file and to generate the links in postinst. Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
