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FS#982 - gnome-themes contains invalid symlinks

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 09 June 2004, 07:26 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 09 June 2004, 12:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

gnome-themes contains symlinks to /var/abs/, this is a "bug" in one of the install scripts it uses. I fixed this in my package using this line after the ./configure line in the PKGBUILD:

sed -i 's|$2/$ORIG_FILE|$ORIG_FILE|g' common/mkiconlinks.sh
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Sunday, 04 July 2004, 18:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 24 June 2004, 13:50 GMT
It seems 2.6.3 should fix this, as the changelog states:

Fix symlinking so that it works when installed from an RPM, too.

I'll check it out one of these days.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Sunday, 04 July 2004, 18:40 GMT
should be fixed with the new release ;)

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