Bug 111879 - symlink broken in /boot
Summary: symlink broken in /boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-12-11 06:56 UTC by Behdad Esfahbod
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-10-30 03:55:49 UTC
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Description Behdad Esfahbod 2003-12-11 06:56:51 UTC
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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:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-12-11 07:37:02 UTC
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)

Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2003-12-11 09:51:51 UTC
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 :).

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2003-12-11 09:54:25 UTC
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.


Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2004-01-18 09:03:43 UTC
Dave,

Would you move the /boot/vmlinux symlink to debuginfo package?  Please
let me know to close bug after you made your decision.

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2004-01-19 09:46:27 UTC
symlink is removed at least in my packages


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