Re: How to setup symbolic links in a package?

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

Peter Weiss writes:

>     probably this belongs to debian devel:
> 
>     Making some experiences in generating my own .deb files I run in the
>     following problem:
> 
>      How do I set up an absolut symbolic link during the package generation?
> 
>     What I'd like to have is something similiar to the XF86Config file
>     provided by xbase: The XF86Config file is an absoulte link:
> 
>       ~:1> ll /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
>       lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           19 Aug 21 17:02
>           /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -> /etc/X11/XF86Config
> 
>     Setting up a link debian/tmp/etc/<target> to debian/tmp/<destination>
>     does not work. Or should this be done by one of the install scripts?
> 
>     In the xbase example I couldn't find one looking at them and dpkg -L
>     xbase doesn't show me this link either.

Using ln -s you do specify the text that is stored in the file record
in the directory.

So ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config debian/tmp/this/link/is/stupid

will create a link:

debian/tmp/this/link/is/stupid -> /etc/X11/XF86Config

(at least it should...)

In your example you could also use a relative linkt ../../etc/X11...

Regards

	Joey

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