ReaR is mailing warnings about missing symlinks when kernel-core is installed and kernel-devel is not

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The ReaR cron job (/etc/cron.d/rear) is sending an email with symlink warnings when the kernel-core package is installed and kernel-devel is not

    Broken symlink '/usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.x86_64/build' in recovery system because 'readlink' cannot determine its link target
Broken symlink '/usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.x86_64/source' in recovery system because 'readlink' cannot determine its link target

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5
  • Relax and Recover (ReaR) 2.6-3

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