On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:43:12AM +0300, Mikko Vartiainen wrote: > > What's the practical difference between upgrading and > > removing-then-reinstalling? (It probably shows that I haven't read the > > "maemo-optify and python apps" thread.) Maybe you could fix the upgrade > > problem by writing a suitable preinst script? > > I have noticed with upgrading from non optified packages to > maemo-optified packages that directory links are not created.
I've read somewhere that dpkg is unable to replace directories with symlinks. > For example if I first have installed a package with a directory > /usr/share/games/crimson and upgrade to a package which has optified > directory /usr/share/games/crimson -> > /opt/maemo/usr/share/games/crimson, the link is not created because > dpkg never removes /usr/share/games/crimson directory. Result is that > I have empty /usr/share/games/crimson directory and all of it's > content in /opt directory. Perhaps a solution is to have maemo-optify keep the directory structure in place and create symlinks only for regular files. > I think it's a bug in dpkg or then we are just using it wrong. > > Workaround for this would be to remove the directory in preinst script > or to install to another directory. But currently when all users are > more or less beta testers I don't care about it. Removing the directory is a bit scary: what if other packages have files in it? This is maybe not applicable to this particular example, but I could imagine crimson-extra-levels or crimson-updated-sound-pack putting stuff there. Marius Gedminas -- "question = (to) ? be : !be;" -- Shakespeare
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