On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:00 +0300, nezmer@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi , > I was looking at the device-mapper PKGBUILD . I'm not sure but the last > line looks problematic : > > # fix device-mapper link bug > ln -sf /lib/libdevmapper.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so" || return 1 > > What If device-mapper is not yet installed in the system ? > What am I missing ? There will be a symlink in /usr/lib/libdevmapper.so that links to /lib/libdevmapper.so, whether this file exists or not. When the package is installed, this file exists because it is included inside the package.