[Fedora-packaging] Absolute symlinks
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Aug 22 11:35:46 UTC 2006
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> rpmlint spits symlink-should-be-relative warnings when it sees an
> absolute symlink, and generally folks have fixed things up when
> presented with the warning. But now I've hit a review where the
> packager thinks an absolute symlink is appropriate and I'm not sure
> whether it's really an issue.
That's why rpmlint issues only a warning. IMO, it doesn't matter that
much one way or the other as long as it still "just works".
> ----
> Mono installs binaries in /usr/lib/<package>/bin with symlinks back to
> /usr/bin. rpmlint is not happy with this and generates an error (which
> is the correct behaviour).
> ----
An error? I thought rpmlint only issues a warning for this?
-- Rex
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