Re: stow fails on absolute symlinks

Adam Spiers <[email protected]> Sun, 13 May 2012 22:40:05 +0100

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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Aljosha Papsch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently tried to install e2fsprogs. =A0I made an 'DESTDIR=3D/pkg/e2fsp=
rogs make
> install' and then tried to run 'cd /pkg ; stow -t / e2fsprogs'. =A0Stow t=
hen
> denied operation complaining about absolute symlinks in the package to st=
ow
> (in case of e2fsprogs /usr/lib/libext2fs.so =3D> /lib/libext2fs.so.2 amon=
gst
> others). =A0I made Stow to run successful by removing the symlink and mak=
ing a
> relative one from libext2fs.so in /pkg/e2fsprogs/usr/lib to
> ../../lib/libext2fs.so.2. =A0It is however legitimate (according to Debia=
n
> policy) for packages to create absolute symlinks as long as the symlink p=
oints
> to another top-level directory.

Thanks, that makes sense now.  Please submit a bug:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=3Dadditem&group=3Dstow