Bug 79887 - feature: converting relative links to absolute
Summary: feature: converting relative links to absolute
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: symlinks
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-17 20:38 UTC by Edward Rudd
Modified: 2008-06-17 01:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 01:07:28 UTC
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Description Edward Rudd 2002-12-17 20:38:11 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020916

Description of problem:
Could a feature be added to convert relative symlinks to absolute symlinks???
I need to move a directory of symlinks, but they are all relative, so moving the
directory would break all of the symlinks.., but if they were absolute it
wouldn't.. Then I could later convert them back to relative..

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-05 05:15:48 UTC
Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the
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Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be
closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a
security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your
help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point.


Comment 2 Edward Rudd 2006-08-05 12:26:22 UTC
This feature is still relavent to the lastest fedora core.   Is there any
information for contacting the upstream author to put the request in to him for
this feature request?

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2006-08-07 09:42:20 UTC
Man page says:

AUTHOR
       symlinks  has  been  written by Mark Lord <mlord>, the developer
       and maintainer of the IDE Performance Package for linux.

Don't know if that email address is current.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 11:53:01 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:07:26 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug. 

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version 
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