Chris Adams 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).
This is something that would be better done starting with a new install.
Otherwise it would have to be in the scripted section of the rpm and
it couldn't be quite atomic to move the old contents and replace the
directory with the link.
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