I ran into the same problem today.
The Debian policy allows the user to delete everything in /usr/share/doc
and every package must be able to cope with this situation.
I deleted /usr/share/doc/* as I needed disk space for updating woody to
sarge and don't need documentation on this system.
--
T
Ari Pollak wrote:
Okay, but why would /usr/share/doc/gaim not exist at all? That link is
included in the gaim package.
I'm assuming there is some legitimate situation that we have not forseen
which causes /usr/share/doc/gaim to not exist, otherwise the reporter
wouldn't have run into the bug and
Okay, but why would /usr/share/doc/gaim not exist at all? That link is
included in the gaim package.
James Strandboge wrote:
If the directory /usr/share/doc/gaim does not exist, then
! -h /usr/share/doc/gaim
evaluates to TRUE (because /usr/share/doc/gaim isn't a link-- it has to
exist to be a link)
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:50 -0500, Ari Pollak wrote:
> I'm afraid I'm not seeing the problem in the logic here. Can you give an
> example of a case where this would fail?
>
> James D Strandboge wrote:
> > Package: gaim
> > Version: 1:1.1.4-2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The statement:
> > if [ !
I'm afraid I'm not seeing the problem in the logic here. Can you give an
example of a case where this would fail?
James D Strandboge wrote:
Package: gaim
Version: 1:1.1.4-2
Severity: normal
The statement:
if [ ! -h /usr/share/doc/gaim ]; then
rmdir /usr/share/doc/gaim
...
evauluates to TR
Package: gaim
Version: 1:1.1.4-2
Severity: normal
The statement:
if [ ! -h /usr/share/doc/gaim ]; then
rmdir /usr/share/doc/gaim
...
evauluates to TRUE when /usr/share/doc/gaim doesn't exist. Therefore
'rmdir' is called and fails, and dpkg gives errors and the install
stops.
I think you
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