symlink is relative - which means it does not always display
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-
Hi,
The branding package contains:
eve% ls -l /usr/share/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 17 23:47 /usr/share/
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/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 17 23:47 /usr/share/
Which works nicely.
Thanks,
Anand
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-
ProcEnviron:
PATH: custom, user
LANG=C
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-generic i686
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.