Bug 2214391

Summary:	broken symlink /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO/21BX.xz
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Component:	linux-firmware	Assignee:	Jan Stancek <jstancek>
Status:	VERIFIED ---	QA Contact:	Laura Trivelloni <ltrivell>
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Description Pavel Cahyna 2023-06-12 20:14:28 UTC

This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #2121447

I am copying this bug because: 

The problem has reappeared with a different symlink

Description of problem:

There is a broken symlink /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO/21BX.xz in the linux-firmware package. The target /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX.xz does not exist (but there is a /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX directory).
This is annoying, because there is a utility (ReaR) that produces a bootable rescue image (including modules and firmware) and checks whether the content of the image is valid. If it encounters a broken symlink, it complains, because it indicates a potential problem and it will be then seen as false alarm that can ultimately obscure a real problem (see bz2021935).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
20230310-133.el9_2.noarch
How reproducible:
easily in the default install

Steps to Reproduce:
1. file /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO/21BX.xz

Actual results:
/usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO/21BX.xz: broken symbolic link to ../sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX.xz

Expected results:
symlink is readable

Comment 1 Jan Stancek 2023-06-13 08:41:37 UTC

scratch build for interested parties: https://kojihub.stream.rdu2.redhat.com/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2333761

# ls -la /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO/21BX
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 23 Jun 13 04:22 /usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO/21BX -> ../sc8280xp/LENOVO/21BX

# diff -u -r orig/usr new/usr
Only in new/usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO: 21BX
Only in orig/usr/lib/firmware/qcom/LENOVO: 21BX.xz