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Problems installing postfix (due to symbolic linked directory)

Open sigulete opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

When installing postfix in a container image based on fedora-bootc, I noticed that the file /usr/sbin/sendmail is not created. It affects other applications that rely on this file.

The directory /var/lib/alternatives is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/alternatives. I'm assuming this is causing the problem.

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sigulete avatar May 17 '24 10:05 sigulete

Additional information; other packages using alternatives have similar issues. I installed man-db, and it doesn't create /usr/bin/man. Looking at a regular Fedora Server, /usr/bin/man is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/man.

sigulete avatar May 17 '24 12:05 sigulete

Considering that this may be an issue with the implementation, I have opened a ticket in bugzilla (fedora container images): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2281575

sigulete avatar May 20 '24 03:05 sigulete

This issue doesn't relate to bootc itself, but a specific OS. There's already a tracker issue for this here: https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/tracker/-/issues/7

cgwalters avatar May 30 '24 12:05 cgwalters