Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 445108
lots of dangling symlinks
Last modified: 2009-05-25 15:43:01 EDT
Many kde-i18n-* packages (e.g. kde-i18n-Italian) and lots of other packages using the KDE framework (e.g. kpowersave) contain a dangling symlink in /usr/share/doc/HTML/ . e.g. kpowersave: root@localhost:/usr/share/doc/HTML# ls -la ./de/kpowersave/common ./de/kpowersave/common -> /usr/share/doc/HTML/de/common kde-i18n-Italian: root@localhost:/usr/share/doc/HTML# ls -la it/kxsldbg/common it/kxsldbg/common -> ../docs/common But there are no packages which provide the respective targets of the symlinks. The number of broken symlinks is rather high, because it seems that there is one for each language for each kde program. On my system (some standard KDE programs, kde-i18n-Italian and kde-i18n-German installed) there are 175: root@localhost:/usr/share/doc/HTML# find -type l -xtype l|wc 175 175 3661 There was already a similar bug filed for this issue, but it was set to "FIXED" in "RAWHIDE": https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388841 Please note that this problem is not limited to kde-i18n-* packages - it affects lots of other kde packages as well.
Going to leave the original closed, devs can reference it as needed.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388841 says this issue has been resolved. If so lets close this out.
See the original report, it explicitly claims that bug 388841 has been incorrectly closed.
I've re-checked the problem on a recent F9 (fully updated) system and it is still there. The command root@localhost:/usr/share/doc/HTML# find -type l -xtype l still reveals lots of dangling symlinks. The following command should listen all affected KDE packages on my system. Please note, that it is very likely that also other packages are affected (which are just not installed on my system): root@localhost:/usr/share/doc/HTML# find -name 'common' -type l -xtype l -exec rpm -qf {} \;|sort |uniq kde-i18n-British-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-Danish-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-French-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-German-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-Italian-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-Portuguese-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-Russian-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-Spanish-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kde-i18n-Swedish-3.5.9-5.fc9.noarch kpowersave-0.7.3-3.fc9.i386
Ping
(In reply to comment #6) > Ping Steven, do you need info from the reporter or from the developer? ;-) I've re-tested it in current F9 and the problem is still there. I'll test Rawhide later and get back with the results.
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/common is provided by the KDE 4 kde-l10n-German. The links for kxsldbg, on the other hand, are really broken, but they're also broken on F8. Looks like an upstream bug.
So to make it clear, there are 2 separate issues, one is kde-i18n relying on files from kde-l10n without a dependency and the other is the broken symlink in the kxsldbg documentation. The first issue is definitely a Fedora packaging issue, the second one might be an upstream bug.
(In reply to comment #9) > So to make it clear, there are 2 separate issues, one is kde-i18n relying on > files from kde-l10n without a dependency and the other is the broken symlink in 1. I don't understand the packaging of the KDE packages completely, but as far as I can see in the description of e.g. kde-i18n-German and kde-l10n-German one is for KDE3 (*i18n*) and one for KDE4 (*l10n*). So I'm not sure whether they should really depend on each other - but as I'm said, I'm not an KDE expert. ;-) 2. It is correct, that installing the corresponding l10n packages fixes the problem for some of the languages, but not for all. Just do the following test: "yum install kde-i18n* kde-l10n* --exclude kde-i18n-Arabic" (both kde-{i18n,l10n}-Arabic conflict with each other, but that's a different problem) Then check for the broken symlinks: /usr/share/doc/HTML# find -type l -xtype l |wc 3097 3097 74220 :-( > the kxsldbg documentation. The first issue is definitely a Fedora packaging > issue, the second one might be an upstream bug.
Unfortunately the problem is still present in F10, so I'm moving the bug too.
This has been an issue for 7+ months and now 2 releases should we wontfix cantfix or continue to let it grow fuzz?
Well, it should stay open as long as the bug is there.
I've added ownership for all /usr/share/doc/HTML/{common,dirs/common} to kde-filesystem-4-26 This should resolve the dangling symlinks issue once and for all. What remains is if it's worth trying to fix apps/pkgs that use/depend-on dirs/common. This seems to be mostly older/legacy kde3 stuff... so probably not.
(In reply to comment #14) > I've added ownership for all /usr/share/doc/HTML/{common,dirs/common} to > kde-filesystem-4-26 Thank you very much for fixing this. Will the fix be ported to F11, too?