From: Jan Blunck Subject: Do the symbolic links right in the first place Since brp-symlink relinks symbolic links to enforce a certain policy we should do it right in the first place. So this patch changes find-debuginfo.sh scripts behavior to reflect that policy. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck --- ./scripts/find-debuginfo.in.orig 2017-12-01 15:26:21.939199791 +0000 +++ ./scripts/find-debuginfo.in 2017-12-01 15:27:03.153081225 +0000 @@ -305,7 +305,17 @@ debug_link() local l="/usr/lib/debug$2" local t="$1" echo >> "$LINKSFILE" "$l $t" - link_relative "$t" "$l" "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" + + # this should correspond to what brp-symlink is doing + case $t in + /usr*) + link_relative "$t" "$l" "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" + ;; + *) + mkdir -p "$(dirname "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT$l")" && \ + ln -snf "$t" "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT$l" + ;; + esac } get_debugfn()