Symlinks in RPMs
Jameson
imntreal at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 21:25:40 UTC 2008
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Jameson <imntreal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:38:43 -0400, Jameson wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on trying to get a package up to snuff for review, and ran
>>> into a problem. It included a couple of fonts that I stripped out.
>>> Thankfully they're already in a font package included in Fedora.
>>> Unfortunately it turns out that their location is hard coded in the
>>> software. I'm trying to setup symlinks to them in the install
>>> section, but rpmlint always complains about them being dangling.
>>> What's the appropriate way to handle these things?
>>
>> Run rpmlint on the _installed_ package instead of the uninstalled
>> package. What do you get?
>>
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>
> Hmm... I just installed my package, and ran rpmlint on that rpm file.
> I'm still getting dangling relative symlinks for my fonts. If I
> check the links they are pointing to where the fonts are installed by
> the font package, though. Do I need to run it against the package in
> my rpm database somehow? Thanks.
>
Ok, I figured it out... Never knew I could do that. Thanks for your help.
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