Bug 452426

Summary:	/sbin/kpartx.static is a symlink to its dynamic counterpart
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jason Bradley Nance <jbnance>
Component:	device-mapper-obsolete	Assignee:	Ben Marzinski <bmarzins>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	agk, bmarzins, dwysocha, mbroz, prockai
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Description Jason Bradley Nance 2008-06-22 20:01:12 UTC

Description of problem:
/sbin/kpartx.static is a symlink to its dynamic counterpart instead of
an actual statical version of the executable.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kpartx-0.4.7-15.fc9.i386


Additional info:
To be honest, I'm not sure if this is actually a bug or not.  It just seems
wrong that the *.static link points to dynamic version.  I discovered this
while researching bug 452423.

Opening against device-mapper since there isn't a kpartx component in bugzilla.

Comment 1 Ben Marzinski 2008-06-24 14:45:04 UTC

Nope. This isn't very pretty, but it's not a bug.  It's a holdover from before
we could execute dynamically linked binaries in early bootup. It's no longer
necessary to have a statically linked binary, and in fact, libdevmapper no
longer exists in as a statically linkable library. However, mkinitrd still
references the static versions of these commands, so they need to exist until
all the references go away.