[ Moved to the Debian GNU/Hurd mailing list. ] > Summary: man-db package broken with a separate /usr
> The hurd-i386 man-db package is broken when you have a separate > /usr directory, which is the default for Debian GNU/Hurd. Here is why : > [...] > The man-db package must have been built with a /usr > -> . symlink and a PATH where /usr/bin appeared before > /bin (which is the default for Debian). AFAIK this is not the first time for something like this to happen. I strongly suggest to remove the '/usr -> .' symlink from the Debian GNU/Hurd system. Having this symlink (and having no /usr anymore, eventually) is suited for the GNU system, but not for Debian. Going further, I once also wanted to eliminate to separate /usr/X11R6/ hierarchy and thus made a '/X11R6 -> .' symlink before installing any X-packages. I wanted to eliminate the separate /bin and /sbin hierarchies and thus moved /sbin/* into /bin/ and put up a '/sbin -> bin' symlink. libfreetype6 broke because of having #v+ # Remove leftovers from some old version of XFree86 package rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.so* #v- in it's postinst script, which deleted /lib/libfreetype.so* on my system. I rebuilt a perl package and got '#!/sbin/perl' as the first line in the perl scripts. (I still had /sbin in $PATH and the configuration script chose to use the last interpreter it found, which happened to be /sbin/perl). So, IMHO, Debian is not prepared to use any other layout of the file system, other than the standard Debian one. And I doubt that anyone will volunteer to fix all the postinst, configure, etc. scripts that are currently "broken". Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
