[Fedora-packaging] Broken Symlinks

[Deepu K S]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> On 04/23/2015 02:35 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 23 April 2015 at 06:51, John Dodson wrote:
>>
>
>  Are there any other packages that create broken symlinks but don't have
>> them listed in their %files sections? That would be against the current
>> packaging guidelines.
>>
> Plenty.
>
> Many systemd packages and packages using alternatives are amongst them:
> # rpm -qf /etc/systemd/system/*
> # rpm -qf /etc/alternatives/*
>
> I guess, there are many more.
>
>
Yes, check for dangling links gives long output.
# symlinks -r / | grep -i dangling

Listing a few below;
========================
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libasan.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libasan.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libatomic.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libatomic.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libgcc_s.so ->
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libgomp.so ->
../../../../libgomp.so.1.0.0
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libitm.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libitm.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libmudflap.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libmudflap.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libmudflapth.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libmudflapth.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libquadmath.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libquadmath.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libstdc++.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libstdc++.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libstdc++.so ->
../../../../libstdc++.so.6.0.19
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libsupc++.a ->
../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libsupc++.a
dangling: /usr/lib/modules/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64/build ->
/usr/src/kernels/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64
dangling: /usr/lib/modules/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64/source -> build
=========================

In above, the symlink is in gcc package, but the file comes with static
library package. (for eg: libatomic-static.i686)

-deepuks


Ralf
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