reassign 37227 stow thanks [ Including the whole message for stow's maintainer convenience. ]
Hi! On Thu, 1999-05-06 at 12:05:48 +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.4.1.1 > I was having some problem with installation of x11amp packages. > > The problem was this: > > I've installed latest x11amp packages to /usr/local/ hierarchy. > After upgrade from X11ampg7 to x11amp9 I have had this problem. > > X11amp was not playing - after the quick look at the /usr/lib > directory I've found out this problem. > There was incorrent link x11amp showing to /usr/local/lib/x11amp. > The reason why the link was incorrect is clear - after the instalation > of x11amp I have removed x11amp from /usr/local/stow by running stow -D. > So this is clear. > > However there are several other problems - which program has created this > link - as I've only used stow & ldconfig. (And I definitely didn't > created this one by myself). stow created that link, that's one of its features. > Second problem: dpkg has overwritten those files located in > /usr/local/lib/x11amp directory without a single warning as they > followed still valid link in the time of installation > > - This is why I'm filling this bugreport - dpkg should always check if there > is > not a user file and if there are some files which are not part of Debian > distribution I should be at least warned about this and asked to > confirm overwritting them. The problem here is that dpkg does not know if a file is a "user file", and it will honour symlinks as modifications done on purpose by the sysadmin. So I guess an answer to that could be "don't do that", but users are entitled to use stow anyway. So the only fix I can see here is for stow to document the dangers of its usage, and that this kind of problem might happen. Thus the reassign. > --- this is the whole log of x11amp's instalation: > dpkg: considering removing x11ampg in favour of x11amp ... > dpkg: yes, will remove x11ampg in favour of x11amp. > (Reading database ... 83467 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking x11amp (from .../sound/x11amp_0.9b1.1-1.deb) ... > Purging configuration files for x11ampg ... > Setting up x11amp (0.9b1.1-1) ... > --- > > So definitely there was no program which could have create /usr/lib/x11amp > directory so even this should cause the warning message. > > Also I'm still curious which program has created this hostile link > from /usr/lib/x11amp -> /usr/local/lib/x11amp. > > -- > > after removing the bad link and reinstalation x11amp everythink works fine > again. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
