On Friday 2013-09-06 23:39, Laurence J. Lane wrote: >Fixes dangling symlinks when using DESTDIR. > >Signed-off-by: Laurence J. Lane <ljlane@xxxxxxxxxx> >- for i in ${vx_bin_links}; do ${LN_S} -f \ > "${sbindir}/xtables-multi" "${DESTDIR}${bindir}/$$i"; done; >+ for i in ${vx_bin_links}; do ${LN_S} -f \ > "${DESTDIR}${sbindir}/xtables-multi" "${DESTDIR}${bindir}/$$i"; done; This seems totally incorrect. By including DESTDIR in the symlink target, you are *creating* a dangling symlink. RPM, DEB (and whatever other packages) would suddenly contain a file that goes like $ rpm -ql iptables lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 27 2013 /usr/sbin/iptables -> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/iptables-1.4.20/usr/bin/xtables-multi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html