why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread glen
a symlink, in .spec, nothing special in it, %config or plain listing, visible in rpm -qpl, but not placed to filesystem. dumps below. wtf is happening!? tested various systems (thus i find nothing special in them): ac 4.5, 4.4.9 th 4.5 # rpm -Uhvv fetch-crl-id.ee-1.0-0.2.noarch.rpm D:

Re: Fwd: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread glen
On 01/08/2012 10:36 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: *From: *Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com mailto:n3...@me.com *Subject: **Re: why is my symlink gone* *Date: *January 8, 2012 3:35:57 PM EST *To: *PLD: Developers list (English) pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:09 PM, glen wrote: On 01/08/2012 10:36 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: *From: *Jeffrey Johnson n3...@me.com mailto:n3...@me.com *Subject: **Re: why is my symlink gone* *Date: *January 8, 2012 3:35:57 PM EST *To: *PLD: Developers list (English)

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread glen
On 01/08/2012 11:32 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: OK. If the symlink isn't in the *.rpm pkg, then its easy to understand why the symlink wasn't installed. it is in a package (as common sense), see rpm -qpl listing in first post! -- glen ___

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jan 8, 2012, at 4:40 PM, glen wrote: On 01/08/2012 11:32 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: OK. If the symlink isn't in the *.rpm pkg, then its easy to understand why the symlink wasn't installed. it is in a package (as common sense), see rpm -qpl listing in first post! ok. technically its

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread glen
On 01/08/2012 11:55 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: You might also try rearranging lines in the *.spec: there's lots of screwy issues that occur when a \r or an unclosed quote/bracket sneak into a *.spec. Without a grammar, there isn't any simple way to catch the screwiness, its all just an ad hoc

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread glen
On 01/09/2012 12:07 AM, glen wrote: i tried to find what is so special in there, %files is just the topdir where all goes in nailed it! i mean i found symptom that could really explain it.

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:37 PM, glen wrote: On 01/09/2012 12:07 AM, glen wrote: i tried to find what is so special in there, %files is just the topdir where all goes in nailed it! Nice! i mean i found symptom that could really explain it. Wuss ;-) You nailed the common identifying

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread glen
On 01/09/2012 01:11 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: This is a hard link to a symlink which is pretty obscure functionality. nevertheless, it's quite useful when optimizing for packaging speed when you develop huge packages, you would appreciate faster repackaging so instead of copying data from

Re: why is my symlink gone????

2012-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Johnson
(text copied verbatim into the #913572 as justification) On Jan 8, 2012, at 6:45 PM, glen wrote: On 01/09/2012 01:11 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: This is a hard link to a symlink which is pretty obscure functionality. nevertheless, it's quite useful when optimizing for packaging speed when you