juju deploy w/ local charm doesn't fail with non contained symlink

[Kapil Thangavelu]

a local charm had a symlink to a parent directory outside the charm.. and juju deploy of it succeeded... which it shouldn't have.. non local symlinks Should not be allowed in a charm, and should cause an appropriate error msg. 2 out of a classroom of 15 hit this..

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

What if it is a symlink to a standard location like /etc/foobar ? I sort of agree, but I'm wondering if there is a genuine use case for symlinking a local name for a system entry.

[Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat)]

Sym links to outside of the charm dir are verboten.. A standard outside is
just a slippery slope for little/no value

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, John A Meinel wrote:

> What if it is a symlink to a standard location like /etc/foobar ? I sort
> of agree, but I'm wondering if there is a genuine use case for
> symlinking a local name for a system entry.
>
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> ** Changed in: juju-core
> Importance: Undecided => High
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> ** Changed in: juju-core
> Status: New => Triaged
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> ** Tags added: papercut
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