merged from the debian-experimental-ma branch

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
index 2a3b8a87d..91aecee65 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ bool FileFd::Open(string FileName,OpenMode Mode, unsigned long Perms)
       }
       break;
       
-      case WriteEmpty:
+      case WriteAtomic:
       {
 	 Flags |= Replace;
 	 char *name = strdup((FileName + ".XXXXXX").c_str());
@@ -678,6 +678,15 @@ bool FileFd::Open(string FileName,OpenMode Mode, unsigned long Perms)
 	 free(name);
 	 break;
       }
+
+      case WriteEmpty:
+      {
+      	 struct stat Buf;
+	 if (lstat(FileName.c_str(),&Buf) == 0 && S_ISLNK(Buf.st_mode))
+	    unlink(FileName.c_str());
+	 iFd = open(FileName.c_str(),O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC,Perms);
+	 break;
+      }
       
       case WriteExists:
       iFd = open(FileName.c_str(),O_RDWR);