[Slackbuilds-users] Error while installing package culmus

[George Vlahavas]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, B Watson wrote:
> Salix, spkg, and slapt-src are all off-topic for this list. If you ask on
> a Salix mailing list, you'll probably get a much better answer.
>
> However, I'll give it a shot:
>
>> ERROR: Package contains symlink with unsafe path.
>> (/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-culmus.conf)
>> ERROR: Installation script processing failed.
>> ERROR: Package installation failed!
>> /sbin/spkg -u --reinstall --install-new culmus-0.130-noarch-1_SBo.txz
>> Failed
>
> The package's doinst.sh contains this as the last line:
>
> ( cd /etc/fonts/conf.d ; ln -sf ../conf.avail/61-culmus.conf 61-culmus.conf )
>
> ...which is a perfectly normal thing for a font package to do.

Actually, no. This is wrong and it will also fail to work with installpkg 
if it is used with the --root option. It needs to be changed to:

( cd etc/fonts/conf.d ; ln -sf ../conf.avail/61-culmus.conf 61-culmus.conf )