Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I think what you want is described in the "dpkg programmers manual": > > A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic links to a > directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or > not) will be left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if > there is one.
Ah, thank you. I think this should be in policy. So then I know that it is necessary and correct to remove the existing symlink from the old package in preinst. But I'd still like to know what the error message during dpkg unpack phase is: rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/texmf/web2c': Is a directory Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
