maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Seamless Software Upgrade v4.2008.36-5 is out!

	Viqsi	2008-10-02 , 22:22
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Originally Posted by maacruz

- The update contains a documentation package. This package causes a lot of trouble, because it fails if the user has moved, removed or linked the documentation files:
It fails if there is no files in "/usr/share/pre-installed/MyDocs/.documents/". Create that directory and touch or put a file there if you have that deleted.
It fails if the "/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/osso_software_copyright.pdf" file is a symlink
It fails if the "/home/user/MyDocs/.documents/~sfil_li_folder_user_guides/" directory is a symlink or is empty. Make sure you have an actual directory with any file there.

Oh, now *that* REALLY pisses me off.

I have the internal card reformatted as ext2 so that I could use it as a default user space. And the way I normally did this was to symlink /home/user/MyDocs to that. So, kaboom.

What in the almighty hell is a .deb doing even glancing sideways at the /home directory? That's the user's playground. You DO-NOT-TOUCH the user's playground. Ever.

GRARGH.