I thinks this has nothing to do with the symlinks package ---but I had to choose a component. I just upgraded to 6.1 (via ftp) from 6.0. I chose to upgrade, and not to customize the packages to upgrade. I was almost at the end of the installation when I get an error message that prompts me if I want to debug. I did not, so the system went down, but could never come back. With my old rescuse disk, I booted, and noticed that / was full. The reason it was full was that my three symlinks doc -> ../hda5/usr/doc share -> ../hda5/usr/share src -> ../hda5/usr/src in /usr got removed by the installation, and got replaced by actual directories /usr/doc, /usr/share, /usr/src This of course, ate up the 300+M freespace on /. Curious, I verified this behavior one more time: I reinstated the symlinks, again ran the upgrade, and again the above symlinks got removed. Here is the relevan partition table, in case you decide to try to duplicate my observation: /dev/hda1 * 1 128 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 129 525 3188902+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 129 218 722893+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 219 308 722893+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 309 317 72261 82 Linux swap Mate ------- Additional Comments From 10/20/99 17:11 ------- It seems it is crucial that my symlinks are *relative* symlinks. When I use absolute links, all seem well. Mate
I was able to perform an upgrade from 6.1 to the beta for 6.2 without any problems. Note that I was using symbolic links for this upgrade. So, I think this issue might be resolved. Please reopen if you are still having problems.