Hi, Op ma 8 jan 2007 om 09:19:36 +0100 schreef Michael Hanke: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:53:57PM -0900, Fielder George Dowding wrote: > > Narative: The installation script breaks due to namespace conflict, to wit: > > cannot create the subdirectory "/etc/arno-iptables-firewall" because the > > file "arno-iptables-firewall" exists. > > Work-around: I renamed the file "arno-iptables-firewall" to > > "arno-iptables-firewall.conf" and re-ran the installation from dselect. The > > script was able > > to create the directory and complete its actions including restarting the > > firewall. > > I'm not yet sure what the reason for this behaviour is. Are you > upgrading from a previous package version. If so, from what version? > > If you have used a custom installation of the upstream distribution > before this might be the root of evil. The package does not support > upgrading custom installs (only upgrades from previous package > versions). The reason for this is that in theory the upstream stuff can > be installed in any location and I think it is not reasonable to test > for every possiblity. > > I'd be glad if you could post more information.
Perhaps
if [ ! -d /etc/arno-iptables-firewall ]; then
mkdir /etc/arno-iptables-firewall
fi
in preinst could get improved. Otoh, I doubt wether it is worth the
effort. It seems the reported case is really very rare...
Bye,
Joost
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