symlink is relative - which means it does not always display

[Anand Kumria]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0-branding

Hi,

The branding package contains:

eve% ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 17 23:47 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png -> ../../lib/firefox-3.0.5/icons/mozicon128.png

This works in most situations; however if you have (let's say) migrated /usr/share to /home and then symlinked /usr/share to /home/share as I have you end up with a no firefox icon.

Having a relative symlink means that I need to 'bind' mount /home/share onto /usr/share (possible, but not as easy to do as a migration above). It would be nicer if the symlink was 'from the root' and thus it could work in both situation.

i.e. please change it to:

eve% ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 17 23:47 /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox-3.0.png ->/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/icons/mozicon128.png

Which works nicely.

Thanks,
Anand

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0-branding 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH: custom, user
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-generic i686

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

* Migrating /usr/share to /home is considered to be a "customised" operation and isn't something that is normally done. I am sure that moving everything from /usr/share to /home/share would break more then just firefox.

I will mark this as a "wishlist" as the sym link you have suggested is a good idea and might want to be considered for future releases.

[Richard Seguin (sectech)]

* Flagged as wishlist by bug-control triager

[Anand Kumria (wildfire)]

Hi Richard,

Nothing else broke when moving /usr/share to /home/share, because it
was also symlinked so that anything that referred to /usr/share/ 'from
the top' worked as expected.

Sure the action I am requesting (having the symlink changed from
relative to absolute) is a wishlist item. However the bug (that the
icon was not being displayed) was occuring; hence I thought that was
the appropriate way to flag this.

Thank you for taking the time to triage this though.

Cheers,
Anand

On 1/3/09, Richard Seguin <email address hidden> wrote:
> * Flagged as wishlist by bug-control triager
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
> Status: New => Confirmed
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> symlink is relative - which means it does not always display
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313457
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