Re: Disappearing symlinks in RPM transaction

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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:12:05PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:

> Can someone shed a light on this?  I'm afraid the actual remove
> actions for foo-1-1 remove my symlink.  The only thing I want to
> do is replacing a directory with a symlink in an update of the
> package.  How should I do this?

To answer my own question, at least this seems to work:

    %triggerpostun -- %{name} < %{version}-%{release}
    ln -snf bar /opt/foo

Note that just "%triggerun" does not work, as this is run *before*
the actual files of the old version are removed.

Is this indeed the "recommended way"?

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