[arch-general] Is it a bug ? (device-mapper PKGBUILD)

[nezmer at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:20:55PM +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:00 +0300, nezmer at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > I was looking at the device-mapper PKGBUILD . I'm not sure but the last 
> > line looks problematic :
> > 
> > # fix device-mapper link bug
> > ln -sf /lib/libdevmapper.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so" || return 1
> > 
> > What If device-mapper is not yet installed in the system ?
> > What am I missing ?
> 
> There will be a symlink in /usr/lib/libdevmapper.so that links
> to /lib/libdevmapper.so, whether this file exists or not. When the
> package is installed, this file exists because it is included inside the
> package.
> 
aha .
Lesson of the day : We can link non-existing files .

Thank you for the clarification .