dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/archival/dpkg.c b/archival/dpkg.c
index 1db53f494..e90e82b64 100644
--- a/archival/dpkg.c
+++ b/archival/dpkg.c
@@ -913,20 +913,16 @@ static void write_status_file(deb_file_t **deb_file)
         fclose(old_status_file);
         fclose(new_status_file);
 
-
         /* Create a separate backfile to dpkg */
         if (rename("/var/lib/dpkg/status", "/var/lib/dpkg/status.udeb.bak") == -1) {
-                struct stat stat_buf;
-                xstat("/var/lib/dpkg/status", &stat_buf);
+                if (errno != ENOENT)
+                        bb_error_msg_and_die("cannot create backup status file");
                 /* Its ok if renaming the status file fails because status
                  * file doesnt exist, maybe we are starting from scratch */
                 bb_error_msg("no status file found, creating new one");
         }
 
-        if (rename("/var/lib/dpkg/status.udeb", "/var/lib/dpkg/status") == -1) {
-                bb_error_msg_and_die("DANGER: cannot create status file, "
-                        "you need to manually repair your status file");
-        }
+        xrename("/var/lib/dpkg/status.udeb", "/var/lib/dpkg/status");
 }
 
 /* This function returns TRUE if the given package can satisfy a
@@ -1344,7 +1340,7 @@ static void remove_package(const unsigned package_num, int noisy)
         free_array(exclude_files);
 
         /* rename <package>.conffile to <package>.list */
-        rename(conffile_name, list_name);
+        xrename(conffile_name, list_name);
 
         /* Change package status */
         set_status(status_num, "config-files", 3);