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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2014-08-19 09:53:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2014-08-19 20:12:04 +0200 |
| commit | 914e739cf4ecdcd7120fbb7f203a26c03cc30ba9 (patch) | |
| tree | f65bd0e3177053105b8a25a33c0f4859bfdd7f39 /man | |
| parent | 7fe9dcdd57c083180a7994957d1e5217d28e970a (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-914e739cf4ecdcd7120fbb7f203a26c03cc30ba9.tar.gz | |
dpkg-maintscript-helper: Fix symlink_to_dir to assure absolute pathnames
We must ensure that the original symlink and symlink targets are
absolute pathnames. For the latter it is easier to make sure the
filesystem symlink target matches the argument passed, as we can
canonicalize the argument.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1 b/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1 index f8952e702..5e811810d 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1 @@ -169,9 +169,9 @@ scripts: dpkg\-maintscript\-helper symlink_to_dir \\ \fIpathname\fP \fIold-target\fP \fIprior-version\fP \fIpackage\fP \-\- "$@" .P -\fIpathname\fP is the name of the old symlink (the path will be a +\fIpathname\fP is the absolute name of the old symlink (the path will be a directory at the end of the installation) and \fIold-target\fP the -target of the former symlink at \fIpathname\fP. +absolute target name of the former symlink at \fIpathname\fP. .P Current implementation: the \fBpreinst\fP checks if the symlink exists and points to \fIold-target\fP, if not then it's left in place, otherwise |