On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:20:14PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > I have a problem with gnome-users-guide-en > > in the current version 1.2-1, there is a symlink > > /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html -> > /usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C > > dwww won't follow this symlink, so I turned it around in 1.2-2 to read > > /usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C -> > /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html > > But there is a problem with up- and downgrading the package. The link > won't change. The version installed first, determines the direction of > the link, it doesn't change on up- and downgrade. > > Is this a bug/limitation in dpkg?
It's a documented (mis)feature. Make your postinst do something like this: if [ "$2" -a -d /usr/share/xfce/help -a ! -L /usr/share/xfce/help ]; then rm -rf /usr/share/xfce/help && ln -s ../doc/xfce/html /usr/share/xfce/help fi -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
