Bug#323702: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.12-1: recursive symlinks prevent module-assistant from building modules)

2005-08-19 Thread Wouter Coekaerts
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 05:25:38PM -0400, Paul Kuliniewicz wrote: Hmm. I purged the packages, deleted the cached .debs, and re-installed, and now everything looks to be as it should be. I'm not sure what had happened there. I think I had version -2 of the .deb and then upgraded it to

Bug#323702: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.12-1: recursive symlinks prevent module-assistant from building modules)

2005-08-19 Thread Wouter Coekaerts
On Friday 19 August 2005 13:45, Wouter Coekaerts wrote: I don't know anything about how symlinks are supposed to be handled in .debs, but as long as nobody can point out what was done wrong in the packaging of linux-headers-2.6.12-1, this could just as well concidered a bug in dpkg

Bug#323702: symlink arch from previous version not removed

2005-08-18 Thread Wouter Coekaerts
The problem is, there is still a symlink from a previous version there if you upgrade. Suppose we start from a system without any linux-headers-2.6.12-1* package. Then we install the -2 version (which used to be in unstable) of linux-headers-2.6.12-1 and the -686 one: # dpkg -i