Courier-0.47 RPMBuild error

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Wed Nov 17 12:14:20 UTC 2004


Paul Howarth writes:

> On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 18:59 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Good news for you -- you should no longer be required to deal with this 
>> drivel in FC3.  It's a known issue, and my understanding that FC3's rpm uses 
>> the internal glob() function, instead of glibc's which breaks rpm.
>> 
>> I rebuilt rpm for FC2, using the internal glob() func, and this fixed the 
>> problem.
>> 
>> I think this should really be an errata for rpm for FC2.  Even if it's only 
>> the same version of rpm as released with FC2, but with the configure option 
>> to enable the internal glob().
> 
> However, bearing in mind the "Absolute symlinks hell!!" thread, this may
> be storing up trouble for the future (system upgrade time) if anaconda
> can't handle absolute symlinks.

If Anaconda can't handle absolute symlinks, then anaconda simply needs to be 
fixed.

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