also sprach Nikolaus Rath [2012.09.30.0056 +0200]:
> > preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet
> > that was a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth.
>
> Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly
> manually placing some file in /usr/include/
Hello!
I have written on Sunday, 30 September, at 2:12:
>Nikolaus Rath has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 18:56:
>>"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes:
>>> I've solved that in the
>>> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was
>>> a right step since upgrade 1.0.
Hello!
Nikolaus Rath has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 18:56:
>"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes:
>> I've solved that in the
>> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was
>> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth.
>Somehow that sounds like a re
"Andrej N. Gritsenko" writes:
> I've solved that in the
> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was
> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth.
Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly manually
placing some file in /usr/include/libfm
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 05:31:40PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> In my case, this is quite complicated. I have done all this to allow a
> user to install its own plugin in /var/lib/roundcube/plugins but if he
> did install some plugins in /usr/share/roundcube/plugins because of the
> symlink probl
Hi,
Le 29/09/2012 11:17, Andrej N. Gritsenko a écrit :
> I supposedly not much understand how dpkg does this but my question
> is - isn't it simpler to delete directory in preinst?
There are corner cases where it simply doesn't work as expected (and
some symlinked files are deleted, e.g. #68
Hello!
Vincent Bernat has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 17:31:
> ❦ 29 septembre 2012 17:17 CEST, "Andrej N. Gritsenko" :
>>>This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with
>>>symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.).
>>
>>> [1]: http://bugs.d
❦ 29 septembre 2012 13:01 CEST, Andreas Beckmann :
>> Thanks for the pointers! I now understand why this does not
>> work. Fixing in postinst is quite difficult since I have swapped
>> symlinks and, from the bug reports, successive installs make the
>> situation worst (things got installed in th
❦ 29 septembre 2012 17:17 CEST, "Andrej N. Gritsenko" :
>>This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with
>>symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.).
>
>> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/404850
>> [2]:
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintain
Hello!
Salvatore Bonaccorso has written on Saturday, 29 September, at 12:35:
>This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with
>symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.).
> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/404850
> [2]:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-p
On 2012-09-29 12:47, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 29 septembre 2012 12:35 CEST, Salvatore Bonaccorso :
>
>>> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and
>>> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that:
>>> symlinks are not replaced with the appropria
❦ 29 septembre 2012 12:35 CEST, Salvatore Bonaccorso :
>> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and
>> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that:
>> symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't
>> find anything about th
❦ 29 septembre 2012 11:59 CEST, Vincent Bernat :
> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and
> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that:
> symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't
> find anything about this in the
Hi Vincent
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:59:38AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and
> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that:
> symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't
> find any
Hi!
In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and
symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that:
symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't
find anything about this in the documentation. How should I handle such
cases?
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