Hi Brendan, Brendan O'Dea [2007-08-04 22:01 +1000]: > This is documented behaviour. See section 6.6 (4) of Debian Policy: > > "A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a directory > or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be > left alone and `dpkg' will follow the symlink if there is one."
Oh, weird; thanks for pointing this out.
Is there also a common practice how to perform this correctly then? Currently I
have this nasty bit in postinst:
if [ "$1" = configure ]; then
if ! [ -L /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone ]; then
rmdir /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone
ln -s ../../zoneinfo /usr/share/postgresql/8.2/timezone
fi
fi
Thanks,
Martin
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