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On 2 Sep 2008, at 17:56, Mick wrote: |
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>> WARN: postinst |
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>> Broken symlink for a certificate at //etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006- |
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>> cacert.pem |
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>> ... |
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>> $ ls -l /etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006-cacert.pem |
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>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 61 Aug 30 03:37 /etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006- |
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>> cacert.pem -> /usr/share/ca-certificates/spi-inc.org/SPI_CA_2006- |
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>> cacert.crt |
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>> $ |
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> I assume that the above links are shown as red (or whatever) |
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> indicating that |
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> the links are borked? |
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Yes, indeed. |
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> I believe that it is left as an exercise for the reader to manually |
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> remove |
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> such broken lists as your WARN message tells you: |
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>> WARN: postinst |
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>> Broken symlink for a certificate at //etc/ssl/certs/SPI_CA_2006- |
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>> cacert.pem |
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>> Broken symlink for a certificate at |
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> [snip...] |
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>> You MUST remove the above broken symlinks" |
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I kinda feel this is a poor error message for Portage / an ebuild. |
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I have now already deleted the links manually, but I rather think |
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it'd've been nearer to say "You should now run `find /etc/ssl/certs/ - |
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type broken-symlinks -exec rm \{} \;` as root. |
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The reason I posted was because I felt slightly unclear. |
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Stroller. |
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