On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 04:41:51PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 16:03 -0400, Adrian Mariano wrote: > > That is, should the symlink include $DESTDIR, so it is valid in- > > place? In this case, moving the installation to its final location > > requires that the simlinks be modified. Or should the symlink refer > > to the final destination, so it is invalid in-place but valid once > > the installation is moved? > > Speaking as someone who does a lot of relocating of things, IMO the > correct solution is that the symlink resolves to a relative path, not a > fully-qualified path, so that it works correctly regardless of whether > the installation is used in-place or after relocation.
Surely when this is an option it would be the way to go. But in my case, a relative path between the files is not known because the link is between datadir and sharedstatedir.
