[pacman-dev] difficult symlink "puzzle"
ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu
ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu
Wed Jul 4 10:00:04 EDT 2007
> I'm confused about what is the actual problem, and what's the solution
> you propose for fixing it.
OK, let me explain (again.-):
We have a theoretical coolplayer package, which have the following
naming scheme: /usr/lib/coolplayer/2.0/ ... and also have a
/usr/lib/coolplayer/current symlink, which points to 2.0. Package
coolplugin installs a file to /usr/lib/coolplayer/current (so to
/usr/lib/coolplayer/2.0). pacman -S updates coolplayer 2.0 to 2.1,
which is a remove then install process. So the symlink
/usr/lib/coolplayer/current is deleted and then set to 2.1 dir. And now
the content of coolplugin is in /usr/lib/coolplayer/2.0, the package is
broken, some files are out of pacman's control!
Bye, ngaba
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