Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
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

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-05 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Brendan, Brendan O'Dea [2007-08-04 22:01 +1000]: > This is documented behaviour. See section 6.6 (4) of Debian Policy: > > "A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a directory >or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be >left alone and `dpkg

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-04 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 13:00 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Here's how I worked around the bug here: > > > > rmdir /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone > > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone > > Aah, I got it now. This is evidently a dpkg bug. The previous version > ships /u

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-04 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 01:00:00PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: >Aah, I got it now. This is evidently a dpkg bug. The previous version >ships /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone/ with content, the next >version ships a symlink /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone -> >../../timezone. When purging the old

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-04 Thread Martin Pitt
tag 430524 confirmed clone 430524 -1 reassign -1 dpkg retitle -1 package upgrade does not replace directory with symlink thanks Hi again, Chris Lawrence [2007-07-11 23:56 -0500]: > Here's how I worked around the bug here: > > rmdir /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-08-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Chris, Chris Lawrence [2007-07-11 23:56 -0500]: > Here's how I worked around the bug here: > > rmdir /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone Weird, this is actually how postgresql-8.2 ships it by default: $ dpkg -c postgresql-8.2_8.2.

Bug#430524: Workaround for timezone bug

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Lawrence
Here's how I worked around the bug here: rmdir /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://blog.lordsutch.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe