Hi Graham, On 24 March 2009 at 11:33, Graham Williams wrote: | Maybe a wishlist rather than a bug? | | On one of my servers I have /usr/share physcially located on another | partition, with a symlink back to /usr/share (for whatever bizarre | reason.... actually because I ran out of space on /usr). Not sure
Happens to everyone... | whether that violates a Debian or Linux policy. But plugins are not | found for ggobi: | | $ ls -l /usr/share/ggobi/ | total 8 | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-10-06 16:54 data | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2008-12-20 15:03 plugins -> ../../lib/ggobi/plugins | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-10-06 16:54 share | | $ ls -l /usr/share/ggobi/../../ | total 168 | [...] | drwxrwsr-x 13 root src 4096 2006-09-03 21:55 cvs | drwxrwxr-x 8 www-data staff 4096 2008-10-07 08:09 g2data | drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-01-09 05:23 jaya | drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2004-05-18 20:11 lost+found | [...] | drwxr-xr-x 407 root root 12288 2009-02-28 14:18 usrshare | drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2008-07-11 19:42 var | [...] | | That is, there is no lib directory there..... | | My quick fix is to symlink /usr/lib to here.... but should the ggobi sym | link be to /usrs/lib/ggobi/plugins, rather than assuming location (or | does that imply other assumpmtions about location?). In the narrow sense, yes. In the wider sense, I think the answer is no. There is something in the Debian Policy about links being preferred to be 'short' and 'not absolute'. So even if you create explicitly, I think the dpkg et al tools 'flatten' them back. Do you want me to dig out chapter and verse? So I think in this it is really "just" your local admin issue, and I would like to just close this if that was ok with you. Dirk [Ooops. Just noticed that this had been sitting unsent in an emacs buffer for days...] | | Regards, | Graham | | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: 5.0 | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash | | Versions of packages ggobi depends on: | ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit | ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries | ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra | ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library | ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib | ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines | ii libgraphviz4 2.20.2-3 rich set of graph drawing tools | ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface | ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio | ii libpixman-1-0 0.14.0-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a | ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2 PNG library - runtime | ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library | ii libxcb-render-util0 0.3.3-2+b1 utility libraries for X C Binding | ii libxcb-render0 1.1-1.1 X C Binding, render extension | ii libxcb1 1.1-1.1 X C Binding | ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library | ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra | ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime | | ggobi recommends no packages. | | ggobi suggests no packages. | | -- no debconf information | | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
