help file is a broken symlink.
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#37 help file is a broken symlink.
Hi,
Thanks for your work on this project. In the snow leopard dmg there appears to be a dangling symlink.
cobb:~ $ cp -r /Volumes/GIMP\ 2.6.11\ Snow\ Leopard/Gimp.app /Applications/
cp: /Volumes/GIMP 2.6.11 Snow Leopard/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help: No such file or directory
cobb:~ $ ls -lh /Volumes/GIMP\ 2.6.11\ Snow\ Leopard/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help
lrwxr-xr-x 1 rsp staff 17B Oct 6 01:17 /Volumes/GIMP 2.6.11 Snow Leopard/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/share/gimp/2.0/help -> /tmp/skl/Gimphelp
I don't know if this could be used in an attack (malicious user creates /tmp/skl/Gimphelp and tricks victim into opening help?), but reporting it anyway incase it helps you work out some other issues.
thanks,
kk
this is an intnded behaviour to get the help files easily nstallable. The sratup scripts check whether help files are installed and set up a new symlink to point to the installed help files. Now the symlink in the Application bundle will point to the newly created symlibk, which in turn will pnt to the installed hep files.
-skl