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Howto create relative symbolic link

Name: satimis
Date: July 25, 2004 at 09:26:51 Pacific
OS: RH 8.0
CPU/Ram: Athlon 1.4/512MB

Comment:

Hi folks, RH 8.0 Fedora Core 2 I encountered following problem in upgrading RH8.0 to Fedora Core 2 Absolute Symlinks The following files are absolute symbolic links, which we do not support during upgrade. Please change them to relative symbolic links and restart upgrade. /usr/tmp # ln -sfr /tmp /usr Invalid option - -r Try 'ln --help' for more # man ln # ln --help could not find -a and -r options there. Kindly advise how to proceed. TIA B.R. satimis

Name: Wolfbone
Date: July 25, 2004 at 10:14:04 Pacific

Reply:

The error message says it doesn't like "absolute", not "hard" links and you can't hard link directories anyway: cd /usr ; ln -s ../tmp ./

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Name: Wolfbone
Date: July 25, 2004 at 18:09:28 Pacific

Reply:

Sorry - I didn't see your 's' - so forget the mini-rant about hard links and just use the rather obvious '../' means of making relative links.

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Name: satimis
Date: July 27, 2004 at 20:18:38 Pacific

Reply:

Hi Wolfbone, Tks for your advice which works for me. B.R. satimis

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