rpm5: symlink glob strikes back

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Nov 16, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Jakub Bogusz <qboosh at pld-linux.org> wrote:

> There was a patch before 4.5 -> 5 migration, IIRC dropped as "no longer
> needed". But now:
> 
> [...]
> Processing files: colorhug-client-gui-0.1.13-2.x86_64
> error: File not found by glob:
> /home/users/qboosh/tmp/colorhug-client-0.1.13-root-qboosh/usr/share/icons/hicolor/*/mimetypes/application-x-ccmx.png
> 

The old glibc behavior for glob's and symlinks is
as necessary as always afaik.

Meanwhile, RPM includes the older version of glob in
its libraries for portability with GNU extensions.

Is the internal rpmio glob not good enuf any more?

Or what is the core issue?

73 de Jeff