Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alexm)]

Hi, everyone!
I do not know why this happens, but just want to let you know

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
> I have always used a 300 meg /opt partition, but I think
> when 5.3 shows up I will do away with it and just symlink /opt to
> /usr/local.

ymlink /opt --> /usr/local does not always work
One of my friends tried to install word perfect 7 rpm supplied with RH5.
His /opt was a directory in the root fs.
Word Perfect would always attempt to install itself into /opt.
However, there was not enough space in /
We removed /opt directory and created symlink /opt to /home/username.
Attempted to run rpm -i wp7.rpm
This created a directory /opt leaving the /opt@ symlink untouched.
The only way we could get around this was by umounting /home and mounting
it under /opt for the time of installation.

I did not test it myself (I was helping him over the phone), but I think
this can be tested with a netscape rpm.

Maybe I am not aware of something with symlinks, but this is what
happened.

alexm

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