Hello, on openSUSE we are seeing issues generating symlinks after replacing our distribution specific patches with the upstream code: $ rm /etc/localtime $ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 6 12:47 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London $ zic -l Europe/Berlin $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 6 11:47 /etc/localtime -> ../../Europe/Berlin resulting in a broken symbolic link. The previous code supplied relname(), and in dolink() instead of calculating the dotdots using fromfield/tofield we used fromname/toname, respectively. I though I'd let you know while we are working on this, in case you have a quick fix. Otherwise we'll attempt to upstream what we come up with. Andreas -- Andreas Stieger <astieger@suse.com> Project Manager Security SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)