Re: [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks

[Mick]

On Wednesday 24 Jul 2013 21:43:32 Kerin Millar wrote:
> On 24/07/2013 19:22, Mick wrote:
> > I am getting messages like the one below from portage every now and then.
> > Especially, about /var/run, but in this case about a different directory:
> >
> > * Messages for package dev-libs/klibc-1.5.20:
> >   * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to
> >   * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible.
> >   This * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete
> >   remnants of an * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a
> >   given symlink with * the directory that it points to.
> >   *
> >   *      /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
> >   *
> >
> > Perhaps I am having a senior moment, but I am not clear what I should do
> > despite the friendly message.  This is the symlink in question:
> >
> > ls -la /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov  8  2008 /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm ->
> > asm-x86
> >
> >
> > How am I supposed to *replace* it with the directory that it points to?
>
> I would take it to mean that /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm should be a
> directory and contain the files that are currently residing in the
> asm-x86 directory. For example:
>
> # rm asm
> # mkdir asm
> # mv -- asm-x86/* asm/
> # rmdir asm-x86

Thanks Kerin, I did as you suggested, remerged dev-libs/klibc and now waiting 
to see if anything breaks.  Ha!

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Regards,
Mick