Re: over 30000 bugs in our archive (!)

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Christian Schwarz wrote:
> >      In certain cases, however, relative links may cause more problems. For
> >      example, links into `/etc' and `/var' should be absolute.
> 
> As you quoted: links _into_ `/etc' and `/var' should be absolute. But the
> link in distributed-net is
> 
>   var/lib/distributed-net/distributed-net -> /usr/bin/distributed-net
> 
> so it's into /usr and thus should be relative :-)

But the passage in the policy manual says "for example..". I took that to
mean all such symlinks between top level directories. 

Does anyone know why exaclty we have this paragraph in policy? I'm not sure
what the reason it's in there is for, or exaclty what problems the relative
symlinks can cause.

-- 
see shy jo


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