Absolute symlinks hell!!

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:35 +0000, Robin Atwood wrote:
> My present FC2 partition was copied from another disk when I lasted upgraded 
> my box. I used either  'cp -a ...' or mc and I now have absolute symlinks 
> everywhere, eg:
> [root at opal root]# ls -l /etc/X11/X
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 30 Jun 15 20:24 /etc/X11/X 
> -> ../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg

Erm, that's a relative link, not an absolute one.

> FC3 now tells me that it cannot upgrade a system with absolute symlinks. Is 
> there some way I can convert them, via tar maybe?

Does the installer give an example of an absolute link that it's
complaining about?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>