On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Guillem Jover wrote: >> The files must not be moved from the old dir to the new symlink-to-dir, >> otherwise dpkg will lose track of them wrt to their canonical path, and > > And what about files which are not managed by dpkg? > And files of other packages which are not upgraded at the same time? > > I believe that the files which are left-over at the end (i.e. after dpkg > has cleaned up the tree due to the temporary symlink) should be put back > in place when there's no conflicting file (they could also have been > installed by other packages wich were not yet updated to not use the > symlinked directory). > >> I went ahead and implemented this command, because once having gone >> over the failure modes, it was easier to just code it down. I'll be >> doing some polishing and testing tomorrow, to be included in an >> imminent push. > > Usual practice would be to attach the patch so that others can review > too... > > Cheers,
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