Refresh PR: Treat symlinks as normal files in spec file #1039
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I'm trying to bring back to life a very old PR: #916
Here I'm adding back the original test made by @dpennell and I'm reapplying his changes on top of the current master branch.
An interesting improvement is that by describing symbolic links as part of RPM's spec file, it can remove them during uninstall, leaving no empty folders behind. Previously, the links were removed in the
postun
hook, after RPM tried to rid of its managed folders, resulting in empty directories whenever there was a symbolic link inside them.I've tested this with a project I'm working on using a CentOS VM.