reassign 445095 dpkg retitle 445095 Upgrade changes symlink to directory. thanks
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:52:05AM +0300, Antonios Christofides wrote: > Package: openssl > Version: 0.9.8c-4etch1 > Severity: normal > > The recent security update broke my installation, where /etc/ssl is a > symbolic link. The upgrade removed the link and installed a /etc/ssl > directory containing only two empty directories (certs and private). The openssl package has a few files/dirs in /etc: /etc/ssl /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf /etc/ssl/private /etc/ssl/certs /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf is also marked as a conffile. The later 2 are just empty directories the openssl package might use. The ca-certificates package for instance also puts it's files there. If you just replace /etc/ssl by a symlink, dpkg gets confused when you try to upgrade it to a newer version, and I think it just removes the symlink and creates the files and directories again. You could argue that this is a bug in dpkg, but it might also be documented behaviour, I don't know. I'm just going to reassign it to the dpkg package. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
