[Fedora-packaging] Broken Symlinks

[John Dodson]

Sorry - I've been offline for a bit.

Thanks Deepu & others.
I think the dangling symlink problem is now in the right place & will probably
get some attention by at least being brought up & thought about.
I'm sure the Kernel people will deal with it when they can & they will be moved
to the -devel package appropriately.

Cheers

johnd

Deepu K S <deepuks86 at gmail.com> wrote:
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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