Font packages changes required for dropping chkfontpath/xfs

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 20:07:33 UTC 2007


On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:03:03 +0900
Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:

> As I said "from packaging issue", current Fedora's packaging policy
> is:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ rpmlint -I symlink-should-be-relative symlink-should-be-relative :
> Absolute symlinks are problematic eg. when working with chroot
> environments.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> And we already have the example in which the common path is only /
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ls -al /usr/lib/libz.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-05-31 14:53 /usr/lib/libz.so
> -> ../../lib/libz.so.1.2.3
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I think this is clearly taking the guidelines a bit too literal.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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