Symlinks in RPMs

[Jameson]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
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Hmm...  I just installed my package, and ran rpmlint on that rpm file.
 I'm still getting dangling relative symlinks for my fonts.  If I
check the links they are pointing to where the fonts are installed by
the font package, though.  Do I need to run it against the package in
my rpm database somehow?  Thanks.