Re: What is a 'circular link'?
On 19 Jan 1998, Carey Evans wrote:
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> Are there any symbolic links in the postgresql packages, or put there
> by the postinst? Symlinks in Debian packages are supposed to be
> relative (e.g. to be a problem, this would have been
> "../../etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf") so I don't see how this particular
> link would have got there.
No, not all symlinks have to be relative. Policy section 3.3.5:
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Most symbolic links should be relative, not absolute.
[...]
In certain cases, however, relative links may cause more problems. For
example, links into /etc and /var should be absolute.
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Thanks,
Chris
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