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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 23:03:09
Message-Id: e78c3658-18bd-029e-9fa0-e1c6c6093d43@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage by Jack
1 On 20/6/19 2:26 am, Jack wrote:
2 > On 2019.06.19 14:10, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:45:03 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
4 >>
5 >> > wifi ~ # unsymlink-lib --analyze
6 >> > /usr/lib needs to be a symlink to lib64!
7 >> > wifi ~ # ls -al /usr/lib
8 >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan  4 13:37 /usr/lib -> /usr/lib64
9 >> > wifi ~ #
10 >> >
11 >> > The symlink looks the same as another unconverted system - so whats
12 >> the
13 >> > problem?
14 >>
15 >> On this system, /usr/lib is a symlink to lib64, as the message states,
16 >> not /usr/lib64
17 >>
18 >> % ls -ld /usr/lib
19 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 16  2015 /usr/lib -> lib64
20 >>
21 >>
22 >> --
23 >> Neil Bothwick
24 > Ah, I think we've gotten to a bad splitting of hairs.  /usr/lib ->
25 > lib64 and /usr/lib -> /usr/lib64 have the same effect, but are not
26 > quite the same.  The first is a relative symlink, the second is
27 > absolute, although both actually point to the same place.
28 >
29 > Bill - you might try "rm /usr/lib" WITHOUT the trailing slash, to
30 > remove the symlink.  Then "ln -s lib64 /usr/lib" will recreate it in
31 > the form unsymlink-lib seems to require.
32 >
33 > Jack
34
35 Thanks, nicely picked!
36
37 Hair split and now all works as intended.  Just found another system
38 with the same problem too.
39
40
41 BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>