Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111879
symlink broken in /boot
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:04:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Epiphany/1.0.4 Description of problem: I have a broken symlink in /boot: vmlinux-2.6.0-0.test11.1.9 -> /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.0-0.test11.1.9/vmlinux I have no /usr/lib/debug/lib at all. On a side note, kernel-source may provide a symlink as /usr/src/linux-2.6, unless it has been decided otherwise. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.0-0.test11.1.9 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
the vmlinux is in the kernel-debuginfo package since 99.99% of the people have no use for it (it's only when you want to run gdb on the kernel) so it's not a good idea to make it use space (and bandwidth!) for everyone. As for /usr/src/linux-2.6 symlink not being there; that is deliberate. If you want to compile your own kernel you actually care about the exact version instead of depending on this symlink and kernel-source is only usable for that (eg it no longer is or can be used for building external modules against)
Thanks a lot. I see now. So, I still like the stale symlink to be removed and the second one to be added *personally*, but feel free to close the bug :).
I'll think about the vmlinux symlink (eg maybe it should just move to the debuginfo package itself) the /usr/src/linux-2.6 link is not going to happen, in our 2.4 rpms it was a legacy thing for 2.2 compat; I don't want to carry it forward.
Dave, Would you move the /boot/vmlinux symlink to debuginfo package? Please let me know to close bug after you made your decision.
symlink is removed at least in my packages