Re: Re: Summary of the 2009-01-06 Packaging Committee meeting

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On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:20 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:03:17 -0500 Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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)
[snip]
> For symlinks that are created using "ln -s" in the install phase of the
> rpm build, this is trivially fixed by making the absolute symlink point
> to inside the buildroot, e.g. by changing:

Sure, but if we're going to dictate changes, let's say they should be
changed to what we want :-)

Jeremy

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