Debian 4.86.1 beta

[Jerry Benton]

Does -d fire for symlinks? I forget things ...

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Jan 28, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 01/28/2016 01:46 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> 
>> — note
>> It already checks during preinst for /etc/MailScanner/custom and moves the contents and deletes the directory or link.
> 
> 
> preinst is where the problem is.
> 
>>        # /etc/MailScanner/custom
>>        if [ -d "/etc/MailScanner/custom" ]; then
>>                mkdir -p /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/custom/
>>                cp -rf /etc/MailScanner/custom/* /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/custom/
>>                rm -rf /etc/MailScanner/custom
>>        fi
> 
> 
> If /etc/MailScanner/custom is already a symlink to
> /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/custom, 'cp -rf /etc/MailScanner/custom/*
> /usr/share/MailScanner/perl/custom/' fails because even with -f, cp
> won't copy a file to itself.
> 
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