Re: dangling symlinks in rpm packages for Fedora-devel

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt tmp0701 nospam arcor de>]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:51:59 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:12:55AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 
> > Does rpmlint inform about links pointing outside the package ? 
> > That would be useful.
> 
> It does. 
> 
> but here we also need a periodic check, because change in other packages
> may lead to broken links.

If you mean that you link from within one package to a file included
within a different package, then the package is missing "Requires:
/path/to/link/target", isn't it?

Of course, you can try to get away with just "Requires: some-pkg-name",
but that is too fragile, especially if you already believe that the
linked file might be dropped any time.