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czezz 01-17-2015 03:03 PM
e2fsprogs upgrade - odd appearance on the root file system
 
I have upgraded e2fsprogs to version e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009) on my old Slackware 12.0.
After upgrade, my root file system looks like in following listing. Please pay attention to:
Code:
fsck.ext2.8.gz -> e2fsck.8.gz
fsck.ext3.8.gz -> e2fsck.8.gz
mkfs.ext2.8.gz -> mke2fs.8.gz
mkfs.ext3.8.gz -> mke2fs.8.gz
uuid_generate_random.3.gz -> uuid_generate.3.gz
uuid_generate_time.3.gz -> uuid_generate.3.gz
I have no clue what is that and why it is here.
I have built e2fsprogs with SlackBuild. Though the system looks to be running smoothly and with no issues Im little bit concerned about this appearance.
Does anybody know what is that ?
Code:
root@proxy:~# ls -al /
total 84
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root  4096 2015-01-17 11:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root  4096 2015-01-17 11:51 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2007-04-30 06:35 bin/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2015-01-17 11:05 boot/
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 13680 2015-01-17 11:06 dev/
drwxr-xr-x 40 root root  4096 2015-01-17 11:06 etc/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    11 2015-01-16 23:42 fsck.ext2.8.gz -> e2fsck.8.gz
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    11 2015-01-16 23:42 fsck.ext3.8.gz -> e2fsck.8.gz
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 2009-02-18 11:20 home/
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 2015-01-16 23:42 lib/
drwx------  2 root root 16384 2014-05-24 13:12 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root  4096 2007-09-14 11:56 media/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    11 2015-01-16 23:42 mkfs.ext2.8.gz -> mke2fs.8.gz
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    11 2015-01-16 23:42 mkfs.ext3.8.gz -> mke2fs.8.gz
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2014-05-24 13:15 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 2008-11-16 02:46 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 83 root root    0 2015-01-17 11:06 proc/
drwx--x--- 16 root root  4096 2015-01-17 00:05 root/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2015-01-16 23:42 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 2015-01-16 22:38 share/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2014-05-06 18:27 srv/
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root    0 2015-01-17 11:50 sys/
drwxrwxrwt  5 root root  4096 2015-01-17 11:04 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root  4096 2015-01-16 23:35 usr/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2015-01-16 23:42 uuid_generate_random.3.gz -> uuid_generate.3.gz
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2015-01-16 23:42 uuid_generate_time.3.gz -> uuid_generate.3.gz
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root  4096 2014-05-06 17:58 var/

Didier Spaier 01-17-2015 03:24 PM
These look like symlinks to man page, probably following a merge of man pages, so nothing to worry about IMO.

What is strange of course is to see these links in / instead of /usr/man/man8 and /usr/man/man3, but that is easy to fix. I don't know why that happened and won't investigate further as that's not worth reinstalling Slackware 12.0 after all these years ;)

By the way you know that Slackware 12.0 is now unsupported thus won't receive security fixes any more, do you?

veerain 01-18-2015 08:31 AM
You can safely remove those symlinks.

Also see whether you have such symlinks or files in /usr/share/man/manx. If not you may move there.

czezz 01-19-2015 04:21 AM
Hi, thank you guys for looking into this.

@Didier Spaier - ya, I know Slack12 is ancient version.
This installation is here with me since 2007 and actually the reason why I have updated e2fsprogs is because I was upgrading kernel to the latest long term - 3.14.28.
Its deployed now successfully :D

I also try to keep up with updates of other packages by myself.

Cheers,
czezz


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