[arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)

Daenyth Blank daenyth+arch at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 07:51:53 EDT 2009


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:12, RedShift <redshift at pandora.be> wrote:
> That seems like something dangerous to do, what if package A installed for
> example, /var/lock/mysoftware/ to keep locks for multiple purposes, and you
> install package B, which replaces /var/lock/mysoftware/ with a file called
> /var/lock/mysoftware (because /var/lock/mysofware/ happens to be empty at
> that point), causing package A to break.
>
> Not only does it give the potential to break software (bad) instead of
> erroring out (good), it gives inconsistent results across multiple systems.
>

Agreed.


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