Re: [Fedora-packaging] Re: Summary of the 2009-01-06 Packaging Committee meeting
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:20 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:03:17 -0500 Jeremy Katz
<katzj(a)redhat.com> 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_...
> > 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