[elbe-users] replacing /etc/resolv.conf with a symlink

[Ralf Schlatterbeck]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:13:08AM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> I have a system that manages /etc/resolv.conf in a nonstandard way.
> I'm trying to replace /etc/resolv.conf with a symlink to a directory
> mounted later (in a NOR flash not the standard rootfs which is on NAND
> flash) In the latest version of ELBE (12.2+deb9+build811) I'm unable to
> do this.
> 
> - I have a debian package "iptna" that contains /etc/resolv.conf as a
>   symlink
> - I have a finetuning rule (that I find nowhere in the log):
>   <command>ln -sf /ipCAT.runtime/etc/resolv.conf /etc</command>
> - Both should create the symlink but don't
> 
> But resolv.conf ends up as a file containing just the line:
> 
> nameserver 10.0.2.3

I've found a workaround, if I put the symlink into the archive attached
to the elbe XML file, the symlink is correctly created. But why don't
all the other methods work for resolv.conf?

Ralf
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