Font packages changes required for dropping chkfontpath/xfs

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 20:12:51 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 05:03 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote, at 07/31/2007 04:27 AM +9:00:
> > Seriously.  What does a relative symlink win you here?
> 
> 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.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is merely an rpmlink complaint.  Symlinks aren't mentioned in the
packaging policy at all.

- ajax




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