FS#9473 - pacman -Qo follows symlink sometimes

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Vinay S Shastry (shastry) - Tuesday, 05 February 2008, 19:58 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 06 February 2008, 02:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Xavier (shining)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.1.1
Due in Version 3.1.2
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
pamcan -Qo follows symlink if name of symlink matches the one owned by the package

Steps to Reproduce:

ln -s /bin/sh ; pacman -Qo sh
/bin/bash is owned by bash 3.2.025-4

ln -s /bin/sh awk; pacman -Qo awk
error: No package owns awk

pacman -Qo /opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 is owned by gconf 2.20.1-1
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 06 February 2008, 02:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed with commit b29838c8250125a22016c16180e941d059d55539
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Tuesday, 05 February 2008, 21:12 GMT
Not _exactly_ the same issue, but still closely related to the one I recently reported on the ML :
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-February/011061.html

I think these can be fixed in a similar way.

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