Bug 38474

Summary:

rpm doesn't give the option of creating symlinks when relocating file locations

Product:

[Retired] Red Hat Linux

Reporter:

fruitbat

Component:

rpm

Assignee:

Jeff Johnson <jbj>

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CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

David Lawrence <dkl>

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medium

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low

Version:

7.1

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FutureFeature

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i386

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2001-04-30 23:28:59 UTC

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Description fruitbat 2001-04-30 23:26:14 UTC

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The --relocate option for rpm is very useful, but would be even more
so if it were possible to optionally create symlinks between relocated
directories and their "canonical" positions (as specified in the
specfile).


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 fruitbat 2001-04-30 23:28:55 UTC

Created attachment 16926 [details]
"Actual" and "Expected" results

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-06 14:23:17 UTC

While I understand the need, rpm --relocate is not the right place to implement
this, there are far too many problems with overloading --relocate. For example,
should directories be created or symlinked. etc?

You can detect that the package is being relocated, create the symlinks
in %post, add a %verifyscript section to check that, if relocated, the symlinks
are correct, and filnally remove, if relocated, the symlinks in %preun if
erasing the package if you wish rpm to manage the functionality. Alternatively,
write a script, possibly using rpm -q, to create the shadow directories and
symlink the files.