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)
symlinks -c will convert an absolute into a relative link, but the
problem is that the absolute link is something like
/usr/bin/barz -> /usr/bin/foo
Since /usr/bin/foo only exists under $RPM_BUILD_ROOT,
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/bin/barz looks like a dangling symlink (there is no
real /usr/bin/foo) and thus symlinks won't convert it to a relative
symlink.
The thing that obviously pops to mind then would be to do a chroot into
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT, but that would a) require symlinks under
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT and b) require root to do chroot(2).
So to get this to work will at the very least require a fair bit more
scripting "fun" :/
Jeremy