Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi all, I could use some advice on how to handle the following situation. I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin - /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. So now I

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Sam Morris
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:38:04 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: My question is how to deal with this legacy symlink. I can just rm it on upgrade, but the admin might have put a different symlink there, or depends on the symlink to keep phpmyadmin configured. Remove it on upgrade if it still points

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 11:38 +0200 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: I could use some advice on how to handle the following situation. I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin - /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: we shouldn't

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:10:59 +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin - /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. Why? What is so bad

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, April 24, 2007 13:10, Daniel Leidert wrote: we shouldn't touch /var/www and not enable phpmyadmin without asking. Why? What is so bad with this symlink? - It touches /var/www which is under the administrator's control; - It does not make sense, since the document root might be

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:10:29AM +, Sam Morris wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:38:04 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: My question is how to deal with this legacy symlink. I can just rm it on upgrade, but the admin might have put a different symlink there, or depends on the symlink to keep

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Sam Morris wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:38:04 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: My question is how to deal with this legacy symlink. I can just rm it on upgrade, but the admin might have put a different symlink there, or depends on the symlink to keep phpmyadmin