On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:17:45AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Is this mandated in policy somewhere? I can't find a reference. If symlinking
> about in package-owned space is supposed to be supported, then there are a lot
> of broken packages in the distribution. On my system there are some 545
> relative symlinks in /usr alone, excluding /usr/doc. All of these would be
> broken by replacing various directories with symlinks to directories at a
> different level in the tree.
Symlinks are required to be relative within top-level directories,
and absolute across top level directories. So /usr/blahblahblah ->
/usr/hummdedum needs to be relative, while /usr/blahblahblah ->
/var/hummdedum needs to be absolute. That is in policy somewhere.
It just means you need to add some directory symlinks if you're moving
things around too much, so symlink-for-usr-doc/../share has to be a
symlink to /usr/share.
Cheers,
aj
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