Absolute symlinks hell!!
Anthony J Placilla
anthony_placilla at SUTH.COM
Wed Nov 17 13:51:30 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:35, Robin Atwood wrote:
> My present FC2 partition was copied from another disk when I lasted upgraded
> my box. I used either 'cp -a ...' or mc and I now have absolute symlinks
> everywhere, eg:
> [root at opal root]# ls -l /etc/X11/X
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 15 20:24 /etc/X11/X
> -> ../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
>
> FC3 now tells me that it cannot upgrade a system with absolute symlinks. Is
> there some way I can convert them, via tar maybe?
> TIA
> -Robin.
man symlinks
I believe the command you want is:
symlinks -c /
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Tony Placilla, RHCT
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(585) 586-5757 x 2201
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