Dan Trainor wrote: > I was curious as to how I am supposed to create symlinks that are for > this package, upon installation. Create them normally in the %install section. List them normally in the %files section. > When I list the links in %files and they go through the install routine, > what I end up with is copies of the files that should have been > symlink'd - not the symlinks themselves. That is not the behavior that I am seeing here. Can you show your spec file? I do this all of the time and it works for me. > I am creating symlinks manually from within %post. This is the only > solution which I've found. You should not need to do that. > Are there any special precautions which I need to take when creating > symlinks, and creating them properly, so that they are removed when I > uninstall an RPM? The only problem I have seen is that a dangling symlink won't be expanded as a file glob. In that case it is best to list it explicitly. But I usually touch the target in the buildroot so that it no longer dangles at the time of glob expansion. Bob
