On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > It is ok to have a symlink in the system when there is a directory in the > package. This is normal method to put a part of directory tree to a > separate partition mounted elsewhere.
That's not always supported. The preferred method is to mount directly such partition under the desired directory. > But if there is a symlink in the system (e.g. created by mistake) that > makes two pathnames equivalent, normal dpkg invocation may do bad things. > > On the other hand, it should be easy to check on dpkg side - just also > compare real pathnames (witl symlinks resolved) where now package-provided > pathnames are compared. Or something similar. Hmm, dpkg does already perform some checks. What you probably need is a dpkg which doesn't have --force-overwrite enabled by default.
