On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 13:00 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Here's how I worked around the bug here:
> > 
> > rmdir /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone
> > ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone
> 
> Aah, I got it now. This is evidently a dpkg bug. The previous version
> ships /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone/ with content, the next
> version ships a symlink /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone ->
> ../../timezone. When purging the old version and installing the new
> one, it works, but when upgrading the package, dpkg leaves the empty
> directory /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone/ around without replacing
> it with a symlink.

Strange... I installed the backport of 8.2 on a fresh system and ended
up with /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone being an (empty) directory
instead of a symlink.

-- 
Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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