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Created attachment 690283 [details]
Patch proposal for gawk/awk symlink issue

Description of problem:

When using the buildinstall script in order to generate a custom version for the anaconda installer, there is a bad symlink in the target tree :

lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root   36 30 janv. 13:40 awk -> /tmp/treedir.Qdpaww/install/bin/gawk

The problem is located into the upd-instroot script. The symlink is done in the bad way

1172 if [ -f $DEST/bin/gawk ]; then
1173     ln -sf $DEST/bin/gawk awk
1174 fi

I think the link shoulw be done like this ln -sf awk $DEST/bin/gawk as it is done above for the bash shell.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 13.21-176

How reproducible: Try to generate an anaconda installer with the buildinstall script.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate an anaconda installer with buildinstall
2. List the target tree after the end of the script
3.
  
Actual results:

There is an awful broken symlink for awk.

Expected results:

A clean target tree

Additional info: It seems that it is the same bug as described here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577452 but it seems it has never been fixed and it is still present in to the RHEL 6 anaconda version (Checked in the last src.rpm available)

You will find also as attachement a patch proposal.

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