[Fedora-packaging] Broken Symlinks

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 23.4.2015 v 06:51 John Dodson napsal(a):
> Hi list,
> I'm new to this list but have had a hard time convincing redhat people that
> broken symlinks are bad! (I'm not going to bother trying to convice you ;-)
>
> What I would like to do is get a "package" to take responsibility for the many
> broken symlinks out there. So that at least a broken symlink can be assigned to
> a specific package the owner of which thinks (sic) that the symlink is
> "required" from his/her perspective. (I won't say that the code should be more
> intelligent & create a symlink if it is really necessary & remove it when it's
> broken as that would expect too much)
>
> Please see,
>
> 	https://access.redhat.com/support/cases/#/case/01326479

The BZ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185918 will be
probably better reference. Not everybody has access to RH's customer portal.


Vít

>
> for more detail.
>
> Generally many packages create symlinks, but don't "own them", I'd like to
> change that. eg. kernel packagages if the source is not installed.
>
> Try,	find / -type l -exec file "{}" \; |grep broken
>
> Cheers
>
> johnd
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