[Buildroot] [PATCH] vim: install /bin/vi as a relative symlink
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Jul 24 08:30:31 UTC 2018
Hello,
On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:55:40 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> The thing is, I don't believe that relying on BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR is the
> right approach. I've had projects with a usr -> . symlink in a custom skeleton,
> for instance. We could of course declare such a skeleton invalid, but I don't
> think that it is checked currently. Also I can imagine that there could be other
> custom skeleton layouts that could create problems.
>
> We already use ln --relative in a few places, isn't that the easiest solution?
ln --relative is not supported on old distros, we even have a patch on
systemd to remove its use of ln --relative.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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