On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:10:23PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> kernel.x86_64: W: dangling-relative-symlink
> /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/build
> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64
>
> (It seems odd that /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/build is packaged in
> kernel, but the symlink it points to is in kernel-devel. Is there a reason that
> the /lib/modules/2.6.36-1.fc15.x86_64/build ownership isn't in kernel-devel?)
We flip-flopped on this a few years ago. It used to be that way iirc, but I'm
not recalling the exact reasoning for why it changed.
I think the problem was the -devel package could be installed without a
kernel package behind it making it awkward to install a symlink. Even if
you just dropped the symlink on the floor, installing the kernel later
would never re-create the symlink leaving things broken.
IIRC, the dangling symlink was the lesser of two evils.
Not that I care either way.
Cheers,
Don