[Fedora-packaging] Re: Absolute symlinks

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:04:16AM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Here's rpmlint's reasoning: 
>   'Absolute symlinks are problematic eg. when working with chroot
> environments.'

In that sense every symlink is danergerous including relative ones: if
it contains too many ".." you'll end up outside the chroot anyway if
accessed from outside. If accessed from inside the chroot, absolute
paths are even securer when being root.

Chroots (with external access, e.g. not within) aren't used by package
consumers, but package builders and testers.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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