On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:25:47PM -0400, Braiam Peguero wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 7.10 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > While upgrading from 7.6 to 7.10, dpkg informs me > that it tries to remove /mnt: > > Unpacking base-files (7.10) over (7.6) ... > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/mnt': Directory not empty > > Why would base-files try to do that? I presume is related > to some changes over the logic which /mnt is (re)created when > installing base-files. [...]
Hi. In addition to what I said in the closing message, the "low level" explanation for that is the following: When you upgrade a package, dpkg tries to remove directories in the old package which are no longer in the new package. Since you already upgraded your system, you can check that dpkg -L base-files does not include /mnt anymore, while previously it did. This is the reason /mnt has to be recreated after the upgrade in case it was empty and dpkg removed it. Hope this helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
