[csw-maintainers] bad interactions with CSWcommon

[Philip Brown]

hmmm. I don't remember any more why the lnks were put in. but I
suspect the missing ones arefor locales that got added later

On Friday, June 18, 2010, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> A bug was filed against CSWcoreutils that I've tracked down to a bad
> interaction with CSWcommon.
>
> Consider:
>
> # grep csw/share/locale/es /var/sadm/install/contents | egrep "(CSWcommon|CSWcoreutils)"
> /opt/csw/share/locale/es d none 0755 root bin CSWbinutils CSWgmake CSWmeld CSWfindutils CSWgconf2 CSWbonobo2 CSWcommon CSWgawk
> /opt/csw/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES d none 0755 root bin CSWbinutils CSWgmake CSWmeld CSWfindutils CSWgconf2 CSWbonobo2 CSWcommon CSWgawk
> /opt/csw/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo f none 0644 root bin 113352 38429 1274322259 CSWcoreutils
> /opt/csw/share/locale/es/LC_TIME=LC_MESSAGES s none CSWcommon
> /opt/csw/share/locale/es/LC_TIME/coreutils.mo=../LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo s none CSWcoreutils
>
>
> CSWcoreutils wants to provide:
> $ grep locale/es CSWcoreutils.prototype
> f none /opt/csw/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo 0644 root bin
> s none /opt/csw/share/locale/es/LC_TIME/coreutils.mo=../LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo
>
> So, when CSWcoreutils is installed, the LC_TIME/coreutils.mo symlink
> is delivered as LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo ->
> ../LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo (self referential symlink)...
>
> I thought initially that I could work around this by simply filtering
> out any LC_TIME entries from the coreutils prototype, but not every
> LC_TIME is a symlink to the corresponding LC_MESSAGES (eg:
> locale/vi).
>
> Am I missing an obvious fix here?  I'm happy to settle for a
> non-obvious fix too, but I don't see a good one right now. Have other
> packages encountered this?
>
> For reference, the open bug is here:
> https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4454
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
> --
> Ben Walton
> Systems Programmer - CHASS
> University of Toronto
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