[Bug 225969] Merge Review: kernel

[Don Zickus]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:10:23PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
>  > kernel.x86_64: W: dangling-relative-symlink
>  > /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/build
>  > ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64
>  > 
>  > (It seems odd that /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/build is packaged in
>  > kernel, but the symlink it points to is in kernel-devel. Is there a reason that
>  > the /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/build ownership isn't in kernel-devel?)
> 
> We flip-flopped on this a few years ago. It used to be that way iirc, but I'm
> not recalling the exact reasoning for why it changed.

I think the problem was the -devel package could be installed without a
kernel package behind it making it awkward to install a symlink.  Even if
you just dropped the symlink on the floor, installing the kernel later
would never re-create the symlink leaving things broken.

IIRC, the dangling symlink was the lesser of two evils.

Not that I care either way.

Cheers,
Don