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List:       rpm-devel
Subject:    rpm5 incompatibility with old rpm: globs no longer include dangling symlinks
From:       Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?q?Rosenkr=E4nzer?= <bero () arklinux ! org>
Date:       2008-06-25 12:00:56
Message-ID: 200806251401.19746.bero () arklinux ! org
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In older rpm versions, this spec fragment would cause %_bindir/someapp to be 
included:

%install
make install
# consolehelper comes from a different package, therefore the symlink
# being created here is dangling
ln -s consolehelper $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%_bindir/someapp

%files
%_bindir/*


In 5.1.4 (and probably older rpm5 versions), the dangling symlink is omitted 
and listed in "warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found".
Probably an lstat() somewhere was changed to stat()...

Listing %_bindir/someapp explicitly still packages it.

Is this an intentional change (because dangling symlinks can be rather 
unwanted), or a bug?

ttyl
bero
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