[Fedora-packaging] resolving rpmlint absolute symlinks issue

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Thu Aug 14 22:11:11 UTC 2008


I am getting the following with a package I'm working on:

$ rpmlint --info RPMS/noarch/pyvnc2swf-0.9.3-3.fc9.noarch.rpm
pyvnc2swf.noarch: W: symlink-should-be-relative /usr/bin/vnc2swf
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyvnc2swf/vnc2swf.py
Absolute symlinks are problematic eg. when working with chroot environments.

pyvnc2swf.noarch: W: symlink-should-be-relative /usr/bin/vnc2swf-edit
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyvnc2swf/edit.py
Absolute symlinks are problematic eg. when working with chroot environments.

1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 2 warnings.

I did a bit of a search on absolute symlinks, and tried to make such
using symlinks -cs:
   http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/25
, but that didn't resolve the rpm warning. Do you know if this is 
considered normal to ignore, or can you point to a way to resolve it ?

[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448201]

DaveT.




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