Seen on fontconfig package by Onur:

pisi was leaving symlinks in the system when removing a package.
2008-09-25 08:12:22 +00:00
parent ad5afe94a1
commit bf5f52d4a1
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -509,8 +509,12 @@ class Remove(AtomicOperation):
        if fileinfo.type == ctx.const.conf:
            # config files are precious, leave them as they are
            # unless they are the same as provided by package.
+            # remove symlinks as they are, cause if the hash of the
+            # file it links has changed, it will be kept as is,
+            # and when the package is reinstalled the symlink will
+            # link to that changed file again.
            try:
-                if pisi.util.sha1_file(fpath) == fileinfo.hash:
+                if os.path.islink(fpath) or pisi.util.sha1_file(fpath) == fileinfo.hash:
                    os.unlink(fpath)
                else:
                    # keep changed file in history