Bug 8676

I moved /usr/X11R6 to a partition /More, making it then
/More/usr/X11R6.
I created a symlink (ln -s /More/usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6),
but X didn't work after that:

there are links, like
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs -> ../../../../etc/X11/fs/
which don't work in my case, since, because of the symlink
"/usr/X11R6/../.." is "/More/" and not "/".

The solution is simple: make a fully qualified symlink
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs -> /etc/X11/fs

I can't see the utility to have a symlink descending up to
root with lots of "../../../../" (except that it may facilitate
making the packages).

I understand that sometimes one may want to use a link like
"../bin/xx" inside a package (to make a relocatable package), but for
links that anyway go down to "/", I can't see the utility of this.

This problem will most probably also occur when installing, if somebody
decide to create a partition to hold for example both "/usr/" and "/lib",
creating this partition "/SomeName", with in it "/SomeName/usr" and
"/SomeName/lib", and symlinks
"/lib -> /SomeName/lib", "/usr -> /SomeName/usr".


Anyway, thanks for the great work.

Other files with the same kind of problem:

/etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA*
/etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default -> ../../xdm/Xsetup_0*
/etc/X11/prefdm -> ../../usr/bin/gdm*
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown -> ../../../sbin/ifdown*
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup -> ../../../sbin/ifup*
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -> ../../../../etc/X11/XF86Config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs -> ../../../../etc/X11/fs/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm -> ../../../../etc/X11/twm/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm -> ../../../../etc/X11/xdm/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit -> ../../../../etc/X11/xinit/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled -> ../../../../../var/lib/xkb/
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm -> ../../../../etc/X11/xsm/
/usr/bin/Mail -> ../../bin/mail*
/usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/gawk*
/usr/bin/consolechars -> ../../bin/consolechars*
/usr/bin/gawk -> ../../bin/gawk*
/usr/bin/gtar -> ../../bin/tar*
/usr/bin/gunzip -> ../../bin/gunzip*
/usr/bin/gzip -> ../../bin/gzip*
/usr/bin/loadkeys -> ../../bin/loadkeys*
/usr/info/dir -> ../../etc/info-dir
/usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so -> ../../lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1*
/usr/lib/libcrypt.so -> ../../lib/libcrypt.so.1*
/usr/lib/libdb.so -> ../../lib/libdb.so.3*
/usr/lib/libdb1.so -> ../../lib/libdb1.so.2*
/usr/lib/libdl.so -> ../../lib/libdl.so.2*
/usr/lib/libm.so -> ../../lib/libm.so.6*
/usr/lib/libnsl.so -> ../../lib/libnsl.so.1*
/usr/lib/libnss1_compat.so -> ../../lib/libnss1_compat.so.1*
/usr/lib/libnss1_db.so -> ../../lib/libnss1_db.so.1*
/usr/lib/libnss1_dns.so -> ../../lib/libnss1_dns.so.1*
/usr/lib/libnss1_files.so -> ../../lib/libnss1_files.so.1*
/usr/lib/libnss1_nis.so -> ../../lib/libnss1_nis.so.1*
/usr/lib/libnss_compat.so -> ../../lib/libnss_compat.so.2*
/usr/lib/libnss_db.so -> ../../lib/libnss_db.so.2*
/usr/lib/libnss_dns.so -> ../../lib/libnss_dns.so.2*
/usr/lib/libnss_files.so -> ../../lib/libnss_files.so.2*
/usr/lib/libnss_hesiod.so -> ../../lib/libnss_hesiod.so.2*
/usr/lib/libnss_nis.so -> ../../lib/libnss_nis.so.2*
/usr/lib/libnss_nisplus.so -> ../../lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2*
/usr/lib/libpthread.so -> ../../lib/libpthread.so.0*
/usr/lib/libresolv.so -> ../../lib/libresolv.so.2*
/usr/lib/librt.so -> ../../lib/librt.so.1*
/usr/lib/libutil.so -> ../../lib/libutil.so.1*