[R-pkg-team] Bug#903819: Am I missing something with symlink_to_dir? Re: Bug#903819: r-cran-rmarkdown: Broken link /usr/lib/R/site-library/rmarkdown/rmd/h/bootstrap-3.3.5/shim

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ralf,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 08:37:32AM +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:
> > No further info is needed.  I actually realised the issue before and
> > fixed it in r-cran-rmarkdown_1.10+dfsg-2.  So if you remove
> > r-cran-rmarkdown_1.10+dfsg-1 and install r-cran-rmarkdown_1.10+dfsg-2
> > you will succeed with your test.
> 
> After
> * sudo apt-get remove r-cran-rmarkdown
> * sudo rm  /usr/lib/R/site-library/rmarkdown/rmd/h/bootstrap-3.3.5
> * sudo apt-get install r-cran-rmarkdown
> 
> The issue is solved for me. I did the second step because the first
> step gave me some warnings:
> 
> Removing r-cran-rmarkdown (1.10+dfsg-2) ...
> dpkg: warning: while removing r-cran-rmarkdown, directory
> '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rmarkdown/rmd/h/bootstrap-3.3.5/js' not empty
> so not removed
> dpkg: warning: while removing r-cran-rmarkdown, directory
> '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rmarkdown/rmd/h/bootstrap-3.3.5/fonts' not
> empty so not removed
> dpkg: warning: while removing r-cran-rmarkdown, directory
> '/usr/lib/R/site-library/rmarkdown/rmd/h/bootstrap-3.3.5/css' not
> empty so not removed

Thanks for the information.
 
> I am not sure if you want to keep the ticket open, so I leave that
> decision to you.

Please leave the ticket open.  It is better to provide a clean upgrade
PATH - otherwise users with a similar setup like yours will fall into
the same trap.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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