[Fedora-packaging] dangling symlink vs file dependencies

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 2.7.2015 v 14:33 Tom Hughes napsal(a):
> On 02/07/15 12:43, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>
>> I am trying to update rubygem-apipie-rails and on that occasion, I'm
>> going to unbundle the jquery. I did that by specifying "Requires:
>> js-jquery1" and replacing the original file by symlink. And now rpmlint
>> complains:
>>
>> rubygem-apipie-rails.noarch: W: dangling-symlink
>> /usr/share/gems/gems/apipie-rails-0.3.4/app/public/apipie/javascripts/bundled/jquery-1.7.2.js
>>
>> /usr/share/javascript/jquery/1/jquery.js
>> The target of the symbolic link does not exist within this package or
>> its file
>> based dependencies.  Verify spelling of the link target and that the
>> target is
>> included in a package in this package's dependency chain.
>>
>>
>> I could resolve this by "Requires: %{_jsdir}/jquery/1/jquery.js" and I'd
>> love to do it, but this practice is discouraged by guidelines. Now I am
>> wondering:
>
> Is there actually a problem that needs resolving? or is it just that
> rpmlint doesn't realise that the require of js-jquery1 will bring in
> the target of the symlink?
>
> I mean every nodejs package that has dependent modules reports these
> rpmlint warnings (because it doesn't know that the npm(xxx) require will
> bring in the targets) but we just ignore them.
>
> Tom
>

I find the file requires better describing what my package needs and
find them more robust. So I'd like to use them. And I am wondering if
there is still technical reason to not use them.

And one nice side effect would be one resolved rpmlint warning.


Vít