I have just encountered an rpm behaviour which is counter intuitive for me. Let's say that I have a package with one directory and a file in it:
$ rpm -ql test-pkg /tmp/dir /tmp/dir/a Then I remove the dir directory and in its place I create a symbolic link to another directory: $ mkdir /tmp/dir2; rm -r /tmp/dir; ln -s /tmp/dir2 /tmp/dir $ rpm -V test-pkg ....L... /tmp/dir missing /tmp/dir/a So far everything is fine. Now I have a trivial upgrade for the package: $ rpm -qpl test-pkg-1-0.2.i686.rpm /tmp/dir /tmp/dir/a $ rpm -Uv test-pkg-1-0.2.i686.rpm Preparing packages for installation... test-pkg-1-0.2.i686 $ rpm -V test-pkg ....L... /tmp/dir Why did rpm preserve the wrong symbolic link during upgrade? I would expect it to remove it and recreate /tmp/dir as proper directory. $ rpm -q rpm rpm-5.4.10-47.i686 -- Kacper _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
