Description of problem: After running of /etc/cron.daily/prelink at least one symlink in /usr/bin (in my case pnmdepth) is changed to to content of the file to which it pointed to. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): prelink-0.3.6-3 How reproducible: - running /etc/cron.daily/prelink or just prelink - please note, that this problem does not occur on all machines, but if it occurs on one, it will happen every time Actual results: symlink pnmdepth is removed, instead there is a new file with the content of pamdepth (target of the previous symlink) Expected results: prelink should not alter any symlinks Additional info: root@:~# ls -l /usr/bin/*depth* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5768 Apr 14 13:51 /usr/bin/pamdepth lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 25 17:03 /usr/bin/pnmdepth -> pamdepth root@:~# /etc/cron.daily/prelink root@:~# ls -l /usr/bin/*depth* -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7696 Apr 14 13:51 /usr/bin/pamdepth -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7696 Apr 14 13:51 /usr/bin/pnmdepth root@:~# /var/log/prelink.log: ... Prelinking /usr/bin/pnmdepth Linking /usr/bin/pamdepth to /usr/bin/pnmdepth /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/bin/pamdepth is no longer hardlink to /usr/bin/pnmdepth ... Some days ago I've filed a bug on this issue for netpbm-progs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192623 I'm not sure whether this is a problem of prelink, netpbm-progs, both or a packaging problem. Nevertheless I was surprised that a program just alters some files in /usr/bin ...
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