Re: Absolute vs Relative links (Was: Re: Bug#84067: gedit postinst loses when /usr/share/doc is a symlink)
Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 07:18:27PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
>> On my system, /usr/share/doc is a symlink to /home/doc because that
>> hierarchy was taking up too much space on its original partition.
>> This arrangement breaks gedit's postinst, which assumes
>> ../../gnome/help/gedit/C is a valid path relative to /usr/share/doc/gedit.
>> Changing /usr/share/doc/gedit/html to be an absolute symlink should
>> fix the problem.
A better solution would be to upgrade your kernel to 2.4 and use
mount --bind.
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