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Bug 581056

Summary: dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.5-r1 - generates broken links to /usr/libexec/icedtea-web
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Juergen Rose <rose>
Component: [OLD] JavaAssignee: Java team <java>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Juergen Rose 2016-04-24 13:29:00 UTC
I found some broken links:
/usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/itweb-settings
/usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/javaws
/usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/itweb-settings
/usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/javaws

I deleted these links and reemerged icedtea and icedtea-web. But emerging icedtea seems to recreate these broken links:

root@impala:/root(163)# find /usr/lib64/  -xtype l -exec ls -ldF {} \;
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 24 14:51 /usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/itweb-settings -> /usr/libexec/icedtea-web/itweb-settings
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 24 14:51 /usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/javaws -> /usr/libexec/icedtea-web/javaws
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 24 14:51 /usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/itweb-settings -> /usr/libexec/icedtea-web/itweb-settings
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 24 14:51 /usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/javaws -> /usr/libexec/icedtea-web/javaws
root@impala:/root(164)# genlop -t icedtea | tail -n3
     Sun Apr 24 14:54:59 2016 >>> dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.5-r1
       merge time: 1 hour, 12 minutes and 46 seconds.

root@impala:/root(165)# genlop -t icedtea-web | tail -n3
     Sun Apr 24 14:56:49 2016 >>> dev-java/icedtea-web-1.6.1-r1
       merge time: 1 minute and 50 seconds.

root@impala:/root(166)# qfile -v /usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/itweb-settings
dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.5-r1 (/usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/itweb-settings)
root@impala:/root(167)# qfile -v /usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/javaws
dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.5-r1 (/usr/lib64/icedtea7/jre/bin/javaws)
root@impala:/root(168)# qfile -v /usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/itweb-settings
dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.5-r1 (/usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/itweb-settings)
root@impala:/root(169)# qfile -v /usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/javaws
dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.5-r1 (/usr/lib64/icedtea7/bin/javaws)
Comment 1 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev 2016-04-24 13:45:56 UTC
Please stop filing bugs about this. It was supposed to be like that and it will be going away soon.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 515850 ***