On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:46, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:35 +0000, Robin Atwood wrote: > > My present FC2 partition was copied from another disk when I lasted > > upgraded my box. I used either 'cp -a ...' or mc and I now have absolute > > symlinks everywhere, eg: > > [root@opal root]# ls -l /etc/X11/X > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jun 15 20:24 /etc/X11/X > > -> ../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg > > Erm, that's a relative link, not an absolute one. > > > FC3 now tells me that it cannot upgrade a system with absolute symlinks. > > Is there some way I can convert them, via tar maybe? > > Does the installer give an example of an absolute link that it's > complaining about? Hmmm, so much for that theory. It actually complains about: [root@opal root]# ls -l /usr/tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 21 20:22 /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp [root@opal root]# ls -al /var/tmp total 2434 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 16 18:17 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Jun 6 17:31 .. which looks quite kosher to me. Any ideas what's throwing it? TIA -Robin. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "This tag line left intentionally blank" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
