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* [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks
@ 2013-07-24 18:22 Mick
  2013-07-24 20:43 ` Kerin Millar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2013-07-24 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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I am getting messages like the one below from portage every now and then.  
Especially, about /var/run, but in this case about a different directory:  

* Messages for package dev-libs/klibc-1.5.20:

 * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to
 * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This
 * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an
 * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with
 * the directory that it points to.
 * 
 *      /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
 * 

Perhaps I am having a senior moment, but I am not clear what I should do 
despite the friendly message.  This is the symlink in question:

ls -la /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov  8  2008 /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm -> asm-x86


How am I supposed to *replace* it with the directory that it points to?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks
  2013-07-24 18:22 [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks Mick
@ 2013-07-24 20:43 ` Kerin Millar
  2013-07-27 19:16   ` Mick
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kerin Millar @ 2013-07-24 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 24/07/2013 19:22, Mick wrote:
> I am getting messages like the one below from portage every now and then.
> Especially, about /var/run, but in this case about a different directory:
>
> * Messages for package dev-libs/klibc-1.5.20:
>
>   * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to
>   * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This
>   * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an
>   * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with
>   * the directory that it points to.
>   *
>   *      /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
>   *
>
> Perhaps I am having a senior moment, but I am not clear what I should do
> despite the friendly message.  This is the symlink in question:
>
> ls -la /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov  8  2008 /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm -> asm-x86
>
>
> How am I supposed to *replace* it with the directory that it points to?
>

I would take it to mean that /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm should be a 
directory and contain the files that are currently residing in the 
asm-x86 directory. For example:

# rm asm
# mkdir asm
# mv -- asm-x86/* asm/
# rmdir asm-x86

--Kerin


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* Re: [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks
  2013-07-24 20:43 ` Kerin Millar
@ 2013-07-27 19:16   ` Mick
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2013-07-27 19:16 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Wednesday 24 Jul 2013 21:43:32 Kerin Millar wrote:
> On 24/07/2013 19:22, Mick wrote:
> > I am getting messages like the one below from portage every now and then.
> > Especially, about /var/run, but in this case about a different directory:
> > 
> > * Messages for package dev-libs/klibc-1.5.20:
> >   * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to
> >   * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible.
> >   This * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete
> >   remnants of an * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a
> >   given symlink with * the directory that it points to.
> >   *
> >   *      /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
> >   *
> > 
> > Perhaps I am having a senior moment, but I am not clear what I should do
> > despite the friendly message.  This is the symlink in question:
> > 
> > ls -la /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov  8  2008 /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm ->
> > asm-x86
> > 
> > 
> > How am I supposed to *replace* it with the directory that it points to?
> 
> I would take it to mean that /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm should be a
> directory and contain the files that are currently residing in the
> asm-x86 directory. For example:
> 
> # rm asm
> # mkdir asm
> # mv -- asm-x86/* asm/
> # rmdir asm-x86

Thanks Kerin, I did as you suggested, remerged dev-libs/klibc and now waiting 
to see if anything breaks.  Ha!

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Regards,
Mick

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