Bug 105192

Summary:	/bin/ln from coreutils has changed behaviour
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	kernel01
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-17 13:50:14 UTC

On a SuSE LINUX 9.3 you can do

tcsh/new> file ../../hugo
../../hugo: cannot open `../../hugo' (No such file or directory)
tcsh/new> ls -l hugo
lrwxrwxrwx  1 werner suse 10 Aug 17 15:47 hugo -> ../../hugo

which is very use to create symbolic link within a build root
directory like /var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/

g31:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/tcsh-6.14.00$ /bin/ln -fs ../../bin/tcsh
/var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/usr/bin/csh
/bin/ln: creating symbolic link `/var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/usr/bin/csh' to
`../../bin/tcsh': No such file or directory

... which fail with current STABLE

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-17 13:53:27 UTC

/var/tmp/tcsh-6.14.00-build/usr/bin must exits, of course.

Comment 2 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-17 13:55:26 UTC

*** Bug 105196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2005-08-17 14:07:34 UTC

*** Bug 105199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 2005-08-19 00:09:54 UTC

Symlinks to non-existent destinations should work just fine.

Werner, could you please recheck?

Comment 5 Mads Martin Joergensen 2005-09-01 11:04:26 UTC

Werner?

Comment 6 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-09-01 11:24:58 UTC

It works