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Jason Stubbs posted <200512240222.06574.jstubbs@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:22:06 +0900: |
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> A quick patch makes symlinks handled similarly to regular files and |
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> solves the issue. I'll put it into testing unless anybody can come up |
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> with a reason not to. The case that will be broken by the patch is when |
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> two different packages install the same symlink. PackageA is |
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> installed, PackageB is installed, PackageB is uninstalled -> PackageA is |
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> broken. Does this case exist? |
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Yikes! That's not going to remove /lib or /usr/lib or the like, for us on |
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amd64, where that's a symlink to lib64, will it? |
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equery b /lib |
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[ Searching for file(s) /lib in *... ] |
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net-analyzer/macchanger-1.5.0-r1 (/lib) |
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sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre12 (/lib) |
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sys-boot/grub-0.97 (/lib) |
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sys-devel/gcc-4.0.2-r1 (/lib) |
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sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 (/lib) |
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sys-fs/device-mapper-1.01.05 (/lib) |
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sys-fs/lvm2-2.01.14 (/lib) |
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sys-fs/udev-078 (/lib) |
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sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6 (/lib) |
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There's a similar, longer list, for /usr/lib. Obviously, not all of |
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those will own it as a symlink, but it is one, and if removing one happens |
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to remove the symlink... |
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Also consider the effect where a former dir is now a symlink or a former |
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symlink is now a dir. The recent xorg directory moves come to mind. |
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You are /sure/ the new code won't screw anything of that sort up, right? |
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Maybe that's the reason nobody seems to have been around to know about. |
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It just sounds like it /could/ be dangerous to me. For some reason, I |
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don't like the idea of something that could hose a system that badly! =8^\ |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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