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FS#14895 - [openoffice] Problematic symlinks for -base and -base-beta

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Einar Lielmanis (elielmanis) - Sunday, 31 May 2009, 17:41 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 04 September 2009, 22:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

openoffice-base (and openoffice-base-beta) installs symlinks as this:

soffice -> ../../opt/openoffice/program/soffice
spadmin -> ../../opt/openoffice/program/spadmin

spadmin-beta -> ../../opt/openoffice-beta/program/spadmin
soffice-beta -> ../../opt/openoffice-beta/program/soffice

While in the common use that's fine, these programs point nowhere if the usr partition (or usr/bin) are symlinks themselves (yes, a somewhat unusual case). I'd like to suggest making these symlinks to point to normal absolute paths — to /opt/openoffice/... instead.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 04 September 2009, 22:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 26 July 2009, 17:40 GMT
Hi, what is the scenario that you say that is a problem here?

if /usr/bin is a symlink? like /usr/bin -> /some/other/path/bin ?

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