[Mageia-dev] usrmove fallout: sysvinit services rising from the dead

Mon Jul 23 11:17:57 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+Due to some moves, it seems that some services that were previously
+masked in packages are no longer masked.
+
+This is due to relative symlinks in packages.
+
+In actual fact such symlinks might cause other issues, so we'll have to
+have a look at that.
+
+I wonder if we can tweak whatever RPM macro-fu that converts symlinks to
+relative to be aware of /dev/* links and not make them relative? It
+would solve this particular case but perhaps not more generally.
+
+In the mean time, just cd to /usr/lib/systemd/system and look for any
+broken symlinks to /dev/null and recreate them as needed.
+
+For me:
+
+cd /usr/lib/systemd/system
+for l in netfs.service memcached.service sound.service alsa.service
+portreserve.service; do ln -snf /dev/null $l; done
+
+
+Note that just rebuilding the packages containing these will not be
+enough until the _unitpath is changed.
+
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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