[maemo-developers] Autobuilder problem with optified library

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Faheem Pervez <trippin1 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Marius Vollmer
> <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
>> ext Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> On lun., 2009-10-19 at 22:26 +0300, Kamen Bundev wrote:
>>>> Well, on the device and probably in autobuilder the /opt folder is
>>>> actually a symlink to /home/opt... On the other hand maemo-optify
>>>> produces direct /opt folder.
>>>
>>> That's the problem, dpkg won't replace a symlink by a real folder.
>>
>> If that would be true, wouldn't all optified packages be broken in the
>> same way?  They clearly aren't, so something else must be going on...
>
> The difference here is that these optified packages are being
> installed as a build dependency of something else.

The difference is that they are installed into the build environment and
not into a N900.

But the point being made was that the buildbot and the N900
_both_ have the /opt -> /home/opt symlink and that this symlink is
causing dpkg to not install a optified package.  That can't be true.

There clearly is something different about the buildbot which is causing
trouble, but it doesn't look like it is dpkg having trouble with
symlinks and directories.