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