Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-13 Thread Hope Duryea
The problem is my /usr is actually a symlink, and despite the fact that it has lots of files and other subdirs in it (in the real dir it's a link to, that is), dpkg -r does remove it. So I was trying to think of some way to prevent that happening. There's this comment in remove.c: /* Only delete

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-13 Thread Kris Deugau
Hope Duryea wrote: The problem is my /usr is actually a symlink, [snip behaviour explanation] I have to ask... *Why* do you have /usr as a symlink? Extra partition, loopback mount, NFS mount I can understand... Symlink I just can't see being more useful than any of the other three I noted, or

dpkg and sqlite redux

2007-04-13 Thread sean finney
hi folks, sorry for breaking the thread, but i'm not subscribed and i wasn't cc'd, and my current MUA sucks. from ian: Well, I don't know if I still count as one of the `dpkg team' but I think this is a terrible idea for lots of reasons. dpkg needs to be very reliable; its databases must

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hope Duryea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I haven't read through the entire source, but from what I can tell by using dpkg -r on a package, and from looking at isdirectoryinuse(), and the call to it in remove.c, it seems the criteria for whether a directory is included in the removal

Re: Question about dpkg -r

2007-04-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hope Duryea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is my /usr is actually a symlink, and despite the fact that it has lots of files and other subdirs in it (in the real dir it's a link to, that is), dpkg -r does remove it. So I was trying to think of some way to prevent that happening. %

Bug#148546: Automaattinen poissaolovastaus: Support Contact

2007-04-13 Thread Kinnunen Ari-Pekka
OLEN SAIRASLOMALLA 02.04 - 30.04.2007. TYÖASIAT, TIMO MUTTILAINEN, 020 130 2320

Processed: tagging 6714

2007-04-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#15865: this bug/15865: dpkg: please try not to use up all disk space

2007-04-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
dpkg: please try not to use up all disk space http://bugs.debian.org/15865 Actually dpkg should already handle this pretty gracefully. It uses atomic rename()s after linking each file in a package for backup then writing to a new filename. So if you run out of disk space, the maintscript