On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Christian Hammers wrote: > I'm building a private(!) package with files in /usr/local/bin for a host > where /usr/local/ is a symlink. Whenever I remove the package the symlink > gets removed by dpkg although there are plenty of (non-Debian maintained) > files in /usr/local. > > I guess this is because dpkg "thinks" the directory is empty and tries to > clean up.
I would say it's because your package owns /usr/local in the "dpkg -S /usr/local" sense. The .list files in /var/lib/dpkg/info do not specify whether the owned items are files or directories, so dpkg follows the /usr/local symlink when installing your package, and then removes /usr/local as it's not owned by any other package when uninstalling it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
