Absolute symlinks hell!!

Robin Atwood robin.atwood at attglobal.net
Tue Nov 16 23:44:35 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:46, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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?

Hmmm, so much for that theory. It actually complains about:

[root at opal root]# ls -l /usr/tmp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun 21 20:22 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
[root at opal root]# ls -al /var/tmp
total 2434
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    1024 Nov 16 18:17 .
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root    1024 Jun  6 17:31 ..

which looks quite kosher to me. Any ideas what's throwing it?
TIA
-Robin.
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