On 15 Sep 2025 at 16:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:45:07 -0700 Subject: Re: OT: Question on Bad Links? over 400+ on recent clean install To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> On 9/15/25 4:31 PM, Dave Close wrote: > > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > >> For example I have this: > >> /usr/lib/.build-id/06/2c544875e9e66357e278e0aa06b8ac395f9251 -> > >> ../../../../usr/lib64/ImageMagick-7.1.1/modules-Q16HDRI/coders/heic.so > >> It's dangling because I haven't installed the "heic" module for > >> ImageMagick that would provide that library. > > > > Perhaps not directly related to this question, but I've wondered why a > > packager would put such links in the "parent" package and not in the > > packages containing the targets of the links. Why invite this sort of > > seeming trouble that can confuse users? > > I expect that would be difficult to do. Instead of just packaging the > entire directory, you would have to pick out all the individual files > and those identifiers change with almost every release. > Why would users even be looking here? > Just seems broken links would be something to avoid. Note that the ls command will highlight the broken links. lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 23 Jun 16 21:06 VBoxSDL -> /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh shows as red background with white letters. Will have to look at the results. recently the new cppcheck is flagging fopen's that don't have check for NULL returns. Added check lines for a few programs, and expected files to be larger, but result turned out to be 4K smaller, and programs ran a little faster?? Thanks again. > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com mailto:msetze...@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
