xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-3 creates a symlink from /usr/bin/X11 to /usr/X11R6/bin on RHEL 5.6
Issue
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We have a several commerical software packages that are hard coded to look for X utilities in /usr/bin/X11. In RHEL 5, that directory did not exist and the tools (like xset) existed elsewhere. To work around it, we created the directory (/usr/bin/X11) and make some symlinks in that directory
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xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-3.x86_64.rpm was recently released, and it now tries to create a symlink from /usr/bin/X11 to /usr/X11R6/bin. Needless to say, it fails now, since in our case /usr/bin/X11 already exists, and is a diretory.
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We can change what we are doing (i.e. no longer create /usr/bin/X11, let the Red Hat package create it as a symlink, and move around our xedit, xset and xterm links as required), but before doing so, I just want to make sure that this latest xorg-x11-font-utils package is really supposed to be creating /usr/bin/X11 as a link to /usr/X11R6/bin.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6
- xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-3
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