[Bug 47971] New: Wine "updates" virtual device symlinks by overwriting them

WineHQ Bugzilla wine-bugs at winehq.org
Sat Oct 19 18:44:02 CDT 2019


https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47971

            Bug ID: 47971
           Summary: Wine "updates" virtual device symlinks by overwriting
                    them
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: yanestra at gmail.com
      Distribution: ---

For some reason, for many years now, Wine updates the symlinks of the logical
drives everytime it detects a version change of itself. This means, your
carefully crafted symlinks get lost and the program started doesn't find its
data. You have to quit, renew the symlinks and start over. Sometimes, you even
have to clean up the destination directories Wine chose, because the clutter
doesn't belong there.

Wine should leave symlinks alone, except in the case they're "dangling" i.e.
the destination they point to doesn't exist.

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