On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> during the upgrade of the socklog-run package I got this error:
>
> Setting up socklog-run (2.1.0-1) ...
> ln: creating symbolic link `/var/service/socklog-unix' to
> `/etc/sv/socklog-unix': File exists
> dpkg: error processing socklog-run (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Yes, I see, it's a dangling symlink that exists temporarily. This patch
should fix it, you can apply it to
/var/lib/dpkg/info/socklog-run.postinst, and run dpkg --configure -a.
Thanks, Gerrit.
Index: debian/socklog-run.postinst
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RCS file: /cvs/socklog/debian/socklog-run.postinst,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 socklog-run.postinst
--- debian/socklog-run.postinst 6 Mar 2006 12:56:33 -0000 1.6
+++ debian/socklog-run.postinst 21 Mar 2006 10:20:06 -0000
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
# enable system- and kernel-log-service
for i in unix klog; do
- test -e /var/service/socklog-$i || \
+ test -h /var/service/socklog-$i || test -e /var/service/socklog-$i || \
ln -s /etc/sv/socklog-$i /var/service/ || exit 1
done
