On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:10:34PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > (What about /usr/info <-> /usr/share/info ?) > > /usr/info/dir was just recently moved, with dpkg 1.10. That file is now a > symlink to /usr/share/info/dir. Once all files are moved from > /usr/info(there's a few left), and all info browsers read from > /usr/share/info/dir, then we can link the dir.
That's about linking from base-files, I guess. For individual systems, dpkg's postinst already does this, on the first try. if [ -d /usr/info -a ! -L /usr/info -a ! -L /usr/info/dir ]; then echo Moving /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir. mv /usr/info/dir /usr/share/info/dir if [ -f /usr/info/dir.old ]; then mv /usr/info/dir.old /usr/share/info/dir.old fi if [ "`find /usr/info -empty`" = "/usr/info" ]; then echo Making /usr/info a symlink to /usr/share/info. rmdir /usr/info ln -s share/info /usr/info else echo Making /usr/info/dir a symlink to /usr/share/info/dir. ln -sf ../share/info/dir /usr/info/dir fi fi -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.