180894 – mail-mta/exim:-4.67-r1 installs broken symlinks for mailq and newaliases

Bug 180894 - mail-mta/exim:-4.67-r1 installs broken symlinks for mailq and newaliases

Summary: mail-mta/exim:-4.67-r1 installs broken symlinks for mailq and newaliases

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Colin Morey (RETIRED)

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Blocks:	82772
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Reported:	2007-06-04 19:50 UTC by Slava Gorbunov
Modified:	2007-12-02 21:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Slava Gorbunov 2007-06-04 19:50:22 UTC

It makes relative symlinks:

/usr/bin/mailq -> exim
/usr/bin/newaliases -> exim

but exim executable is located in /usr/sbin, so these two links get broken.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sascha Wuestemann 2007-07-02 00:00:24 UTC

I can verify that. Same case here.

Comment 2 Colin Morey (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-19 18:57:40 UTC

should be fixed in -r2

Comment 3 Colin Morey (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-02 21:19:47 UTC

fixed and stable in 4.68