On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:41:24PM +0200, Martin Tsachev wrote: > If I move some files from /var/cache/apt/archives and symlink to them I can > uninstall > and then install again a package only if the parent directory does not > contain spaces. > If there are spaces apt will fail to quote the filename and dpkg errors.
Can you show me an example of what you mean? I do not think that apt would dereference the symlinks at all. -- - mdz
