Once upon a time, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > >> You can't just symlink /sbin to /bin, because that will blow up RPM > >> very badly. > >> > > > >Why's that? Could/should rpm not be fixed? > > Yes, anything that doesn't traverse symlinks transparently deserves to > be blown up. It isn't the traversal that is the problem. The problem is changing an existing directory to a symlink. For example, what if there are still files in the directory? Also, IIRC part of the problem was because rpm installs all the new files and then removes the old ones (so how do you install the new symlink while the old directory is there with lots of files). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
