On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:44:40PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 12:46:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Then please provide a test3 .deb that *does* work. Simply getting rid of > > all the /my_usr/doc references in test3 is *not* enough. > > * install test3_2.0_all.deb > > * note that /my_usr contains /my_usr/share but not /my_usr/doc > > * ln -s share/doc /my_usr/doc > > * dpkg -i test1_1.0_all.deb > > * dpkg -i test1_2.0_all.deb > > * Notice dpkg complains and that /my_usr/share/doc/test1 is now empty, > > while dpkg -L test1 says it shouldn't be. > I've completely lost track of what you're doing at this point.
"test1 v1.0" uses /my_usr/doc. "test1 v2.0" uses /my_usr/share/doc. If there's a symlink from /my_usr/doc to /my_usr/share/doc, upgrading from test1 v1.0 to v2.0 causes test1's documentation to be lost. Simple as that. Kristoffer has made a couple of suggestions that he claims fixes things. As far as I can tell they *don't*. > I'll > submit this, though: I moved /usr/share/doc out of the way and did the > move-doc-to-share/doc-and-symlink-usr/doc thing. I installed some > packages and removed some packages. Everything seems to be fine. What > _is_ the failure case here? I made the debs available for a reason. Install them. Type the commands. See what happens. Stop talking about what you *think*'s right, and start actually *testing* it. This isn't a debating exercise: there *are* right and wrong answers. AFAICT, this is one of the latter. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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