Symlinks in RPMs

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:38:43 -0400, Jameson wrote:

> I'm working on trying to get a package up to snuff for review, and ran
> into a problem.  It included a couple of fonts that I stripped out.
> Thankfully they're already in a font package included in Fedora.
> Unfortunately it turns out that their location is hard coded in the
> software.  I'm trying to setup symlinks to them in the install
> section, but rpmlint always complains about them being dangling.
> What's the appropriate way to handle these things?

Run rpmlint on the _installed_ package instead of the uninstalled
package. What do you get?