Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113024
installing 2.6.0-1.30.i686 nets bad symlink in /boot
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 Description of problem: After installing kernel-source and kernel from rpm a bad symlink is made: symlink that doesn't exist: vmlinux-2.6.0-1.30 -> /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.0-1.30/vmlinux made in /boot Usually that link is /lib/modules/2.6.0-1.30/build/vmlinux Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.0-1.30.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install kernel-source-2.6.0-1.30 2. install kernel-2.6.0-1.30.i686 3. Actual Results: incorrect symlink as: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Jan 7 08:28 vmlinux-2.6.0-1.30 -> /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.0-1.30/vmlinux Expected Results: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Jan 7 08:28 vmlinux-2.6.0-1.30 -> /lib/modules/2.6.0-1.30/build/vmlinux Additional info:
the vmlinux is actually there in the kernel-debuginfo package; this is done because it is rather big and not useful for the vast majority of people (it's only useful for when you want to debug your kernel) so it would be a waste of space and bandwidth if it was part of the standard kernel package and not a subpackage instead.
removed the symlink