On 2012-11-27 15:46, Tobias Eliasson wrote: > Hi. > Hi,
> I hope this question is sent to the right mailing-list. > I am not sure it is, d-devel might be better but I am not certain enough to do the actual redirect. > We're using debian-packages (wheezy) for building our cross-toolchain at > work. > One issue we're having is that the symlinks added in deb-packages are > absolute symlinks. > For example the symlink libz.so will look like this: libz.so -> > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.7 > Not all of them should be absolute. The Debian Policy states that symlinks within a "top-level" directory should be relative, where as symlinks between two different "top-level" directories should be absolute. See Policy §10.5[1] and its footnote[2]. > Since we're installing these packages in our toolchain's sysroot and > distributing to other targets we need to fix these symlinks so that they > are relative instead. > That itself is not a big problem. Just another step on the way to produce > our toolchain. > > My question really would be why symlinks in deb-packages are created as > absolute instead of relative? > > Best regards, > Tobias Eliasson > I believe the footnote of §10.5 explains (one of?) the reason(s)[2]. ~Niels [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.5 [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f91 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
