symlinks breaks lsb_release, but diff reports no changes?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Dec 19 13:00:09 UTC 2025


On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 12:21:20PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>Second, run symlinks script (as root):
>
>#!/usr/bin/env bash
>
>symlinks -r / 1>symlinks.1.txt

Aside from the missing -v option that you noticed yourself, it seems 
like an exceptionally bad idea to run tools like this over / to begin 
with.  For your own files, fine; but don't touch packaged files except 
via the package manager.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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