[oi-dev] An IPS publishing/permissions problem that I'm facing

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 08/21/11 07:00, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> 
> I'm trying to publish a package to an IPS repo on my laptop, and I see
> the following error when I try to install this package. What am I
> doing wrong ?
> 
> Unable to create //usr/src; a parent directory /usr/src has been
> replaced with a file or link.  Please restore the parent directory and
> try again.

Did you check what /usr/src is on your installed system?   At least here
it's:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          11 Jul 22 17:47 /usr/src -> ./share/src/

The package system is telling you someone already made a link there in
another package, it can't reuse that path for a directory as well.

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