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On 28-08-2009 09:48:45 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm using an EPREFIX set to "/" and I have a symlink like so.... |
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> /usr -> /j/usr |
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> Now, when I come to unemerging a package the code in vartree.py does |
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> it's thing and when it gets to the above it removes my symlink /usr |
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> which should point to /j/usr and everything breaks until I re-instate |
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> it. |
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> I think that even when EPREFIX is used normally then this problem could |
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> arise. How many people unemerge something in prefix now ??? |
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I guess the problem is more why it wants to remove that /usr. Maybe |
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because of the same problem we once had during install, where paths |
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"below" the offset prefix shouldn't be taken into account at all, |
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because you should not do anything there, and may not even be able to do |
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so. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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