xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-3 creates a symlink from /usr/bin/X11 to /usr/X11R6/bin on RHEL 5.6

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Issue

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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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