[Fedora-packaging] For a cross-compiling toolchain, does it matter if /usr/bin/* links are symbolic or hard?

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at lesbg.com
Thu Nov 12 09:11:17 UTC 2015


I'm reviewing nacl-binutils (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?i
d=1270355), which has hard links from /usr/x86_64-nacl/* to
/usr/bin/x86_64-nacl-*.  According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pa
ckaging_Cross_Compiling_Toolchains, these should be symlinks, and
rpmlint complains about cross-directory-hard-links.  Is there any
reason to convert these to symlinks or can we just leave them as hard
links?

Thanks,
Jonathan


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