[med-svn] r5363 - trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian

[Steffen Möller]

Author: moeller
Date: 2010-10-17 00:42:53 +0000 (Sun, 17 Oct 2010)
New Revision: 5363

Modified:
   trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/ensembl.postinst
Log:
Creation of files in /var.


Modified: trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/ensembl.postinst
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/ensembl.postinst	2010-10-17 00:42:12 UTC (rev 5362)
+++ trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/ensembl.postinst	2010-10-17 00:42:53 UTC (rev 5363)
@@ -25,11 +25,19 @@
 	echo "Preparing a series of directories."
 	for d in /var/log/ensembl /var/cache/ensembl/img-cache /var/tmp/ensembl/img-tmp /var/tmp/ensembl/tmp
 	do
-		if [ ! -d "$d" ]; then
-			mkdir -p "$d"
-			chown nobody.nogroup "$d"
-			chmod 755 "$d"
+		if [ -d "$d" ]; then
+			continue;
+		elif [ -L "$d" ]; then
+			# a presumed remnant of a previous installation pointing to /usr/share/ensembl
+			rm "$d"
+		elif [ -r "$d" ]; then
+			echo "File '$d' should be a directory - something is wrong."
+			exit 1;
 		fi
+		echo "Creating directory '$d'."
+		mkdir -p "$d"
+		chown nobody.nogroup "$d"
+		chmod 755 "$d"
 	done
 
 	echo "Enabling Apache modules."