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Re: Bug#281739: kernel-image-2.6.9-1-686: dangling source symlink in /lib/modules/`uname -r`



On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:07:32AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:37:58 +0900, Horms  <horms@debian.org> said: 
> 
> > Hi Manoj, do you have a comment on this? I am wondering if it might
> > be best resolved by a postinstall script as part of the kernel-image
> > build process. I notice that fix_source_link() in
> > /usr/share/kernel-package/image.postinst includes code to cope with
> > such dangling links so it is probably harmless, but it would be nice
> > not to include it in the package as it seems entirely useless.
> 
> 	This has been fixed in kernel-package 8.094, released on 10
>  Sep 2004 , when the relink_source_link variable was created. The
>  solution is to build kernel images with newish kernel-package
>  packages. 

I think this problem still manifests with the latest and greatest
kernel-package. I will double-check.

-- 
Horms



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