[Pm-utils] symlinks not relative

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 15:22:50 PDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>
>  currently the symlinks that are created in pm-utils (pm-suspend ->
>  pm-action, ...) are not relative,. Is it easily possible to change these to
>  be relative symlinks? This would have the advantage, that they would also
>  work, when the root file system is mounted somewhere else than /.

I don't know if it's appropriate to add a perl build dependency to
pm-utils, but I recently stumbled upon this in doing some RPM
packaging:

$ perl -e 'use File::Spec; print
File::Spec->abs2rel("/usr/lib/pm-utils/bin","/usr/sbin"),"\n"'
../lib/pm-utils/bin

--
Dan


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