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)" <pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org >> <mailto:pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org>> >> >> >> >> On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:25 PM, glen wrote: >> >>> 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!? >> >> Adding -vv --fsmdebug will display every sys call undertaken >> while installing/erasing a package. >> >> If you do not see the symlink path being removed with --fsmdebug, >> then rpm did not do the removal. Period. Fullstop. > > it's rather that rpm did not add it, > on fresh install, neither on further upgrades or reinstalls > > links were not visible in rpm2cpio dump as well, not sure if that matters > (log in bottom of first email) >
OK. If the symlink isn't in the *.rpm pkg, then its easy to understand why the symlink wasn't installed. Note that -vv --fsmdebug SHOULD work with rpm build, just the operations putting a file into a payload will be different than extracting from a payload. (but the issue is gonna be something screwy in the *.spec: just a guess) hth 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
