Hi Ben,
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
I have committed a new revision which removes the platform-dependent
directory in preinst, allowing the new release to create it as a symlink to
the platform-independent location.
Please try this change and
On 29-Sep-2013, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au
wrote:
That's why I used ‘rmdir’; if the directory is not empty, that means
the directory was not emptied by the package previous version removal
(or there are extra files there
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Will this preinst script (attached) do the job correctly?
I think you should use rm -rf instead of rmdir, as the latter will
fail to remove non-empty directories.
Otherwise it looks correct to me (additional testing
On 29-Sep-2013, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
I think you should use rm -rf instead of rmdir, as the latter will
fail to remove non-empty directories.
That's why I used ‘rmdir’; if the directory is not empty, that means the
directory was not emptied by the package previous version removal (or there
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
That's why I used ‘rmdir’; if the directory is not empty, that means the
directory was not emptied by the package previous version removal (or there
are extra files there which aren't owned by the package). Doesn't
On 21-Sep-2013, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
Hi Ben, and Barry!
Thank you for testing and providing information. I'll address here the
clear problem of changing the location of the platform-independent files.
Dpkg cannot replace directories with symlinks on package upgrades.
I understand; when I
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