From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 11 22:41:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF7137B503 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:41:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA44210; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:37:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3A8784C6.9EF49551@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:37:58 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Szilveszter Adam , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangling symlink in /usr/compat/linux References: <3A7D28EA.9EF46BAE@gorean.org> <20010204112342.A15191@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <3A7DFC47.C76A9872@FreeBSD.org> <20010205091559.A5563@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <3A843594.B28776D8@cup.hp.com> <20010209194521.D27987@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <3A84466C.D9C0456A@cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > The symlinks are created by the RPM packages themselves. The fact that > they are explicitly created in the package list is because they wouldn't > be there when you install linux_base as a package otherwise. > > I use the philosophy in linux_base and linux_devtools that I don't > correct any bugs inherent in the Linux distribution. AFAICT, the > dangling symlink is created by filesystem-1.3.5-1.noarch.rpm, which is > one of the first packages that gets installed. I submitted the original post which merely pointed out the existence of the dangling link and asked if it were a problem. As long as you're happy, I'm happy. :) Thanks, Doug -- "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory . . . lasts forever." -- Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in "The Replacements" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message