Courier-0.47 RPMBuild error

[Paul Howarth]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Paul Howarth writes:
>> 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.

When doing an upgrade, anaconda mounts all the filesystems under 
/mnt/sysimage. So, supposing you just have one big filesystem and an absolute 
link /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp; in anaconda, this will be /mnt/sysimage/usr/tmp -> 
/var/tmp. With a relative link /usr/tmp -> ../var/tmp, in anaconda this will 
be /mnt/sysimage/usr/tmp -> ../var/tmp. So, anything that gets installed into 
/usr/tmp in *any* package will, in the case of an absolute link, get installed 
into /var/tmp in the installer's filesystem and will hence disappear after a 
reboot. With the relative link, it'll just work.

I'd be interested to hear suggestions about how anaconda could avoid this problem.

Paul.