On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:53:35PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > sln (staticly linked ‘ln’) was removed from glibc recently: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531546 > > The explanation for this was: > > "The sln program is no longer useful, so we will not ship it anymore." > > and it was removed from Rawhide 3 days later. > > There are some %post scripts which still use this, notably > ca-certificates, so that's now broken. But more to the point what do > you do if you are in a situation where you need to make a symlink to > save some core shared library on the currently running system? > > I also don't think rather fundamental, useful and old tools like this > should be removed without discussion. Why is normal ln not enough? It should be installed and runnable on pretty much any system, even during upgrades of glibc and other basic libraries. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
