Re: Installer bug with symlinks

2005-11-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Joe Krahn wrote: The installer can make a directory for new files even if there is already an existing directory symlink of the same name. I discovered the problem when upgrading where I had a custom X11 build. I moved /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.dist, and made the symlink /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/X11

Installer bug with symlinks

2005-11-06 Thread Joe Krahn
The installer can make a directory for new files even if there is already an existing directory symlink of the same name. I discovered the problem when upgrading where I had a custom X11 build. I moved /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.dist, and made the symlink /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/X11R6.build. When upd