[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Tue Jul 24 18:30:39 CEST 2012

Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
+
+> On 24 July 2012 11:28, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> Some links were broken in / (they work only if cwd is /):
+>>>
+>>> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 bin -> usr/bin
+>>> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 bin -> /usr/bin
+>>>
+>>> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 lib -> usr/lib
+>>> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:30 lib64 -> usr/lib64
+>>> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 lib -> /usr/lib
+>>> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       10 Gou  24 08:42 lib64 -> /usr/lib64
+>>>
+>>> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:30 sbin -> usr/sbin
+>>> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:42 sbin -> /usr/sbin
+>>>
+>>> Note the missing leading "/"...
+>>
+>> Yup this is intentional. There is no need to a leading /. IMO this is
+>> just a bash bug:
+>>
+>> e.g.
+>>
+>> mkdir -p foo/usr/bin
+>> ln -snf usr/bin foo/bin
+>> ls -l foo/
+>>
+>> The above is no different and works fine.
+>
+> yes that's a ls bug that display them as broken
+
+Maybe this one?
+http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=6124a3842dfa8484b52e067a8ab8105c3875a4f7
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+