Absolute symlinks hell!!
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 16 20:46:05 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:35 +0000, Robin Atwood wrote:
> My present FC2 partition was copied from another disk when I lasted upgraded
> my box. I used either 'cp -a ...' or mc and I now have absolute symlinks
> everywhere, eg:
> [root at opal root]# ls -l /etc/X11/X
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 15 20:24 /etc/X11/X
> -> ../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
Erm, that's a relative link, not an absolute one.
> FC3 now tells me that it cannot upgrade a system with absolute symlinks. Is
> there some way I can convert them, via tar maybe?
Does the installer give an example of an absolute link that it's
complaining about?
Paul.
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