On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:25:25PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:16:45 +0200 > Source: dpkg > Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev > Architecture: source i386 all > Version: 1.14.13 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: > dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian > dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian > dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages > Closes: 76295 109794 200454 220044 229143 245562 246906 356299 373003 377400 > 392440 433567 441021 443241 451872 452730 453364 453885 454616 455260 455520 > 455841 456984 457673 457739 457784 > Changes: > dpkg (1.14.13) unstable; urgency=low > ... > * Fail when diverting to a non existent directory. Closes: #245562 > Thanks to Flavio Stanchina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
This change is specifically what caused the behavior seen in #476973. dpkg-divert is typically called in preinst/postrm. In both of these scenarios, it can not be expected that the directory which contains the file-to-be-diverted or the divert-to-file exists since the package hasn't been unpacked or has already been removed, respectively. If the file in question exists in a typical directory (like /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc.), then the directory likely already exists due to some other package. In the case of a package diverting a file supplied purely by its own binary packages, it is more likely that the directory does not exist yet. I'm currently running into this problem with the Vim packages where I am trying to divert /usr/share/vim/vim71/doc/help.txt (and the tags file in the same directory). Because of the above change to dpkg-divert, I now have to add dirty hacks in preinst/postrm to create the missing parts of the directory structure, if it doesn't exist, call dpkg-divert and then remove the bits of the directory structure I added. I'm taking care to only create/remove exactly the part of the directory structure that doesn't exist yet, but it is very tedious and work that shouldn't be required. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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