On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src ,
/usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions.
I guess it is a common practice.
It might be common, but it is not a good practice since /usr/src is
distribution territory. I.e. Debian packages will overwrite any local
files without warning.
Whatever, I have noticed that in my /usr/src (-> /usr/local/src)
an orphaned link was created linux-kbuild-3.0.0 -> ../lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 :
the /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 does exist, but not /usr/local/lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0
I could create a link /usr/local/lib , but because of the version suffix,
this approach is not an appropriate one.
Of course, I can unorphan the link by hand, but I am looking for a permanent solution.
Any idea ?
My advice would be to delete the symlink and move any files belonging to
Debian packages to /usr/src. Use "dpkg -S usr/src" to find out which
files belong to packages.
If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for
/usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but
/usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not).