FS#398 - Pacman messes up if a directory turns into anything else on upgrade

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jason Chu (jason) - Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 03:23 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 06:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

ex:
installing j2re... done.
upgrading j2sdk... could not extract opt/j2sdk/jre: Is a directory
errors occurred while upgrading j2sdk
done.

/opt/j2sdk/jre used to be a directory and is now a symlink.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 17:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jason Chu (jason) - Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 22:47 GMT
It might just be that it messes up if the directory contains files from other packages. If this is the case then it's not a bug and there's not a lot that can be done about it.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 23:45 GMT
Yea, that may be... I've upgraded 5 boxes so far and I haven't reproduced the "is a directory" error.

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