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Brett Okken commented on MOJO-1308:
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What if we just added a new attribute to Source called softlinkDestination?

<mapping>
<directory>/usr/myapp/bin</directory>
<directoryIncluded>false</directoryIncluded>
<username>root</username>
<groupname>root</groupname>
<filemode>555</filemode>
<sources>
<source>
<location>src/main/bin/httpd</location>
<softlinkDestination>/etc/init.d</softlinkDestination>
</source>
</sources>
</mapping>

Then, under %install, we softlink from softlink destination to every file identified by the source.
I believe that the %files info would already be present.

> Support for softlinks
> ---------------------
>
> Key: MOJO-1308
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MOJO-1308
> Project: Mojo
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: rpm
> Reporter: Are Gravbrøt
> Priority: Minor
>
> In many cases it is necessary to add softlinks in the rpm complete software installation.
> Today that can be accomplished by adding scripts containing ln -s statements.
> However, there is a significant drawback in doing it this way, since the %files section of the SPEC file is not updated to reflect this.
> This leads to creating files that are not reported by rpm -ql.
> To remedy this, I suggest adding a feature to enable the addition of softlinks in the configuration section.
> Ex. <softlinkmapping><target>/sometarget</target><source>/somesource</source></softlinkmapping>
> The spec file can be updated in the following way:
> %install
> ln -s /somesource $RPM_BUILD/sometarget
> %files
> /sometarget

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