On Friday 19 August 2005 13:45, Wouter Coekaerts wrote:
> I don't know anything about how symlinks are supposed to be handled
> in .debs, but as long as nobody can point out what was done wrong in the
> packaging of linux-headers-2.6.12-1, this could just as well concidered a
> b
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 05:25:38PM -0400, Paul Kuliniewicz wrote:
> > Hmm. I purged the packages, deleted the cached .debs, and
> > re-installed, and now everything looks to be as it should be. I'm not
> > sure what had happened there. I think I had version -2 of the .deb and
> > then upgraded
The problem is, there is still a symlink from a previous version there if
you upgrade.
Suppose we start from a system without any linux-headers-2.6.12-1* package.
Then we install the -2 version (which used to be in unstable) of
linux-headers-2.6.12-1 and the -686 one:
# dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6
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