On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: >Oh, weird; thanks for pointing this out.
As I recall, the rationale was so that symlinks created by the administrator were not clobbered on upgrade--consider the case where an admin running low on space moves /usr/lib/some-huge-package to another partition and creates a symlink to that new location. It would be nice if dpkg noticed that the discrepancy b/w symlink and directory in different >Is there also a common practice how to perform this correctly then? Currently I >have this nasty bit in postinst: Probably better to do it in a preinst: if [ "$1" = upgrade ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 8.2.4-2 && test ! -L /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone && test -d /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone then rm -rf /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone fi --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]