Hi,
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> dpkg may well have problems with the symlink, so any
>> packages still installing in /usr/doc/<package> could cause problems
>> with dpkg. Since the move is likely to take a long time, this grand
>> move-in-one-fell-swoop is likely to be fraught with problems.
Joey> After reading Kristoffer's post I am wondering if we're being
Joey> too paranoid. I know dpkg works ok if the sysadmin locally
Joey> moves something and symlinks it similarly to how he
Joey> proposes. At least, the only reports of failures when that is
Joey> done that I've seen were all in xaw-wrappers where I was too
Joey> zealous in following symlinks. I don't remember any dpkg
Joey> problems related to it.
Joey> I'm sure dpkg would get very upset if it thought there were
Joey> files in both /usr/doc/ and /usr/share/doc and the files had
Joey> the same name and the directories were linked, but as
Joey> Kristoffer points out, policy can just forbid this.
Joey> How much testing would we need to give this method before you'd
Joey> be content to use it?
Hmm. Could you set up the symlink, install a package that
installs stuff in /usr/doc; install a package that installs stuff in
/usr/share/doc/; purge both packages. If these work, then we just
have to worry about the mechanism that does the moving -- can one
downgrade the package? Can one recover from an error while performing
the move? can one accomodate files already in /usr/share/doc?
manoj
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