SPECS: apache1.spec - use relative symlinks

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > Author: glen                         Date: Wed Jun 21 12:19:47 2006 GMT
> > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > ---- Log message:
> > - use relative symlinks
> 
> >  mv $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/modules/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libexecdir}
> >  rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/modules
> > -ln -s %{_libexecdir} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/modules
> > -ln -s /var/log/apache $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/logs
> > +ln -s ../..%{_libexecdir} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/modules
> > +ln -s ../../var/log/apache $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/logs
> 
> Symlinks across / used to be absolute.
> Other distros (e.g. Debian) have similar policy.

But...
when you're trying to use vservers or some chroots it's better to have 
them relative. These links are pointing correct place, not host-systems.

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pozdr.  Paweł Gołaszewski          jid:blues<at>jabber<dot>gda<dot>pl
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