Re: Broken Symlinks

[Deepu K S <deepuks86@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/23/2015 02:35 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

On Thursday, 23 April 2015 at 06:51, John Dodson wrote:

Are there any other packages that create broken symlinks but don't have
them listed in their %files sections? That would be against the current
packaging guidelines.

Plenty.

Many systemd packages and packages using alternatives are amongst them:
# rpm -qf /etc/systemd/system/*
# rpm -qf /etc/alternatives/*

I guess, there are many more.

Yes, check for dangling links gives long output.
# symlinks -r / | grep -i dangling

Listing a few below;
========================
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libasan.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libasan.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libatomic.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libatomic.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libgcc_s.so -> /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libgomp.so -> ../../../../libgomp.so.1.0.0
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libitm.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libitm.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libmudflap.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libmudflap.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libmudflapth.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libmudflapth.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libquadmath.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libquadmath.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libstdc++.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libstdc++.a
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libstdc++.so -> ../../../../libstdc++.so.6.0.19
dangling: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.3/32/libsupc++.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.3/libsupc++.a
dangling: /usr/lib/modules/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64/build -> /usr/src/kernels/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64
dangling: /usr/lib/modules/3.19.4-100.fc20.x86_64/source -> build
=========================

In above, the symlink is in gcc package, but the file comes with static library package. (for eg: libatomic-static.i686)

-deepuks

Ralf

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