On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:46:36AM -0400, Allover Stripes wrote: > To clarify: I have several partitions. One is mounted on /, another > on /antelope. /usr/local/dl and /home/allover/audio are symlinks to > different directories under /antelope. I can't accurately predict > their sizes, so it's not practical to have them on different > partitions. If I later decide to move /usr/local/dl onto a third > partition, and if Debian has resolved the realpath()s of any files on > it, then Bad Things will happen.
Right, this must not happen under any circumstances. The situation I was talking about is when you link parts of your filesystem back into itself, for example: . -> /usr . -> /usr/X11R6 /lib -> /usr/lib etc. In this case, when files are moved, dpkg can get very confused. Seperating this cases is not easy, though, and the gain is questionable. So I will drop this idea until someone has better ideas about it. Thanks, Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
