[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Remy CLOUARD at 11/12/12 19:27 did gyre and gimble:
>> > If the symlinks disappear and are replaced again by folders, then also
>> > make sure you disable mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service as it
>> > helpfully nukes the symlinks (the update does this but perhaps it's
>> > somehow been run/re-enabled?)
> Can’t answer for that, most of the time I never shutdown my laptop, only
> pm-suspend.
> 
> I should also mention that each try at installing filesystem resulted in
> a temporary symlink being created like: lock;50b68005. I assume these
> symlinks can safely be removed, just thought I would point that out.

Yeah those are just temporary names extracted from the package before
being mv'ed into place (or rm'ed if a comparison shows they are
identical to files/folders already present). They can be safely rm'ed now.

Col


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