Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu writes:
- Use of absolute symlinks in packages - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Absolute_symlinks_in_fonts_tem...
o Turns out that rpm can be made to convert all symlinks to relative ones transparently, so that's being experimented with first.
Bad idea; relative symlinks pointing to '../' will break when you are in a symlinked directory.
E.g. 'ln -s ../passwd /etc/init.d/foo' points to /etc/rc.d/passwd, not to /etc/passwd. It's an arbitrary example; a more realistic one might be a symlink to /usr/libexec/some-init-wrapper.
Enrico
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