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

Tue Jul 24 18:33:03 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 24/07/12 17:30 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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
+
+Certainly sounds like it!
+
+Col
+
+
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