On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 16:12 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 05:03 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > > Adam Jackson wrote, at 07/31/2007 04:27 AM +9:00: > > > Seriously. What does a relative symlink win you here? > > > > As I said "from packaging issue", current Fedora's packaging policy is: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > $ rpmlint -I symlink-should-be-relative > > symlink-should-be-relative : > > Absolute symlinks are problematic eg. when working with chroot environments. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is merely an rpmlink complaint. Symlinks aren't mentioned in the > packaging policy at all. The chroot concern is real, though. And unless there's a really good reason for it, symlinks _should_ be relative. Even if all they have in common is /. Jeremy -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
