-- see http://git.altlinux.org/gears/e/example-pretrans-dir-to-symlink.git
-- Define the path to directory being replaced below.
-- DO NOT add a trailing slash at the end.
path = "/usr/lib/python3/site-packages/gajim/data"
st = posix.stat(path)
if st and st.type == "directory" then
status = os.rename(path, path .. ".rpmmoved")
if not status then
suffix = 0
while not status do
suffix = suffix + 1
status = os.rename(path .. ".rpmmoved", path .. ".rpmmoved." .. suffix)
end
os.rename(path, path .. ".rpmmoved")
end
end