On 10/08/2021 18:02, Jon Turney wrote:
Revised from [1], this adds an '--symlink-type {sys, native, wsl}' option,
which controls the type of symlinks created by setup and the post-install
scripts it invokes [2].
In the base install, there are 4 symlinks which can't be created using
the native method (and hence fall back to sys method):
package from -> to
reason
terminfo /usr/lib/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo
mount table
terminfo /usr/share/terminfo/6a/jfbterm -> ../6b/kon
target is in terminfo-extra package, unpacked later as unpack order isn't
dependency order (only postinstall script run order?)
file /usr/share/file/magic -> ../magic
target is also a symlink, later in the same archive
ca-certificates /usr/libexec/p11-kit/trust-extract-compat ->
../../bin/update-ca-trust mount table
'mount table' means that in the current setup architecture, 'from' has
already been translated through the mount table into a native path
before we can try to locate 'to' relative to it, but it exists relative
to the untranslated path.
It's probably possible to improve the handling of these cases with more
effort.
