On Dec 24, 2011 5:15 PM, "Tom Eastep" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 17:05 +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 21, 2011 7:55 PM, "Tom Eastep" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > 2) /sbin/shorewall6 is once again a file rather than a symbolic
> > > link. The latter proved difficult for rpm to cope with.
> > >
> >
> > Just wondering what the problem here was? If it's desirable to have it
> > as a symlink, I can try and help fix the RPM issue.
>
> Apparently, changing an existing file to a symbolic link in RPM isn't
> feasible, according to Tuomo Soini. I've reduced the size of the file to
> the point where having multiple copies under different names isn't an
> issue.
Ah. That's true for directories, but should be possible for files afaik.
But if it's a non issue, I won't investigate further.
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