Jean-François Mertens wrote: [] > This issue is a bit more basic than the stray asymptote file: > it is that dpkg gets thrown in disarray when pkg 2 declares > something as a symlink (to a folder, or always?), and pkg 1 as a folder. > Then _ I think _ if I remember well.. _ nothing would go wrong > when installing pkg 1 after pkg 2 : the deb would just expand > according the already existing symlink in the file-system > But afterwards dpkg thinks this symlink is a folder, belonging to pkg 1 !. > > Then, when trying to replace or overwrite the folder in pkg 1 > by the symlink in pkg 2 (pkg 2 could be just pkg 1 with %r=%r+1), > dpkg just refuses to do it, if I remember well. !
Yes. If the symlink /sw/share/texmf-local->/sw/etc/temf.local was in place before asymptote is installed, there is no problem (the old asymptote package had both directories as directories, no symlink). This is why I didn't notice anything wrong. On removal of package 1, however, the symlink could be removed. I remember a time when aome packages had /var as a directory and removed it after uninstalling, with disastrous results for the system. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
