On 10/27/2010 11:02 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
Not that I feel like arguing to save dangling symlink, what happens
in the
case when you install kernel-devel-$KERNVER but there is no
kernel-$KERNVER installed to match? Does the rpm fail because
/lib/modules/$KERNVER doesn't exist? Or are we going to add a dependency
to prevent that from happening?
I think that in this situation, it is permissable for both kernel and
kernel-devel to own /lib/modules/$KERNVER. I'd rather have that
duplicate directory ownership than a dangling symlink, and the Packaging
Guidelines permit it.
~spot