On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello Guy & all. > > Personally, I didn't understand much of you explanation. > > I didn't understand why a rescue floppy won't work. The only thing I realized, > was that rather than correcting the links, you create a /bigdisk/etc that > points to /etc. Looks like a nice solution, which I may have adopted myself, > if I wasn't so eager to get on. > > My 'absolute links' are all corrections of the cases, where the root directory > was referred to as ../../...(and so on). If I want /etc/passwd, why go > ../../../etc/passwd? If I mean root, go root. In that sense, the link > correction looks better than the previous trick.
Absulute symbolic links will break when you mount your partition on a different system. This is commonly used in rescue floppies. relative links will always remain correct if you remember to mount all the partitions under your original root partition. > > I agree that things become messy when new packages are installed, which is > exactly the reason why I install all the packages from the beginning. And when > you want a new package, it's a headache anyhow... rpm should be able to work with symlinks instead of directories, I believe. Will it try to unlink them? -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
