On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 13:16 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > * Use of absolute symlinks in packages - > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Absolute_symlinks_in_fonts_templates_%282009-01-02%29 > o Turns out that rpm can be made to convert all symlinks to relative > ones transparently, so that's being experimented with first. So, at least as it stands right now, this can't easily be done with symlinks(8) symlinks -c will convert an absolute into a relative link, but the problem is that the absolute link is something like /usr/bin/barz -> /usr/bin/foo Since /usr/bin/foo only exists under $RPM_BUILD_ROOT, $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/barz looks like a dangling symlink (there is no real /usr/bin/foo) and thus symlinks won't convert it to a relative symlink. The thing that obviously pops to mind then would be to do a chroot into $RPM_BUILD_ROOT, but that would a) require symlinks under $RPM_BUILD_ROOT and b) require root to do chroot(2). So to get this to work will at the very least require a fair bit more scripting "fun" :/ Jeremy -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
