chainguard-dev
RFE: fix absolute symlinks to relative
Generally, absolute symlinks are less "nice" than relative, as they assume the reader is rooted at /. In an installed system that is going to be true, but if you extract a package or container it is not true.
I would like to do this by default, and enable it to be turned off, but I don't have an actual example of why we'd want to turn it off.
There is code in tw in usrmerge-tool (https://github.com/chainguard-dev/tw/tree/cb0b344a44d5a6757e35b7d8e7d67e1a69493b74/usrmerge-tool) that can turn absolute symlinks into clean relative symlinks. It would be best to expose that as a pipeline that only does absolute to relative, as we do not need usrmerge cleanup any more. The code has never been used in production.
That could be used on each subpackage, or paired with 'finalize' pipelines https://github.com/chainguard-dev/melange/pull/1785, or pulled into melange proper