<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rc040203@freenet.de" target="_blank">rc040203@freenet.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 04/23/2015 02:35 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:<br>
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On Thursday, 23 April 2015 at 06:51, John Dodson wrote:<br>
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Are there any other packages that create broken symlinks but don't have<br>
them listed in their %files sections? That would be against the current<br>
packaging guidelines.<br>
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Plenty.<br>
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Many systemd packages and packages using alternatives are amongst them:<br>
# rpm -qf /etc/systemd/system/*<br>
# rpm -qf /etc/alternatives/*<br>
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I guess, there are many more.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, check for dangling links gives long output.<br># symlinks -r / | grep -i dangling<br><br></div><div>Listing a few below;<br>========================<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libasan.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libasan.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libatomic.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libatomic.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libgcc_s.so -> /lib/libgcc_s.so.1<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libgomp.so -> ../../../../libgomp.so.1.0.0<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libitm.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libitm.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libmudflap.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libmudflap.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libmudflapth.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libmudflapth.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libquadmath.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libquadmath.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libstdc++.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libstdc++.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libstdc++.so -> ../../../../libstdc++.so.6.0.19<br>dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libsupc++.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libsupc++.a<br>dangling: /usr/lib/modules/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64/build -> /usr/src/kernels/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64<br>dangling: /usr/lib/modules/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64/source -> build<br>=========================<br><br></div><div>In above, the symlink is in gcc package, but the file comes with static library package. (for eg: libatomic-static.i686)<br><br></div><div>-deepuks<br><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><font color="#888888">
Ralf</font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><br>
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