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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] symlinks in EPREFIX path
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:43:24
Message-Id: 20071107174302.GG3230@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] symlinks in EPREFIX path by Fabian Groffen
1 On 07-11-2007 18:41:44 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > > Is this something prefixed-portage should handle, or the ebuild or
3 > > should I solve it manually via the export trick I did ?
4 >
5 > prefixed-portage.
6 >
7 > We run path.normpath() on EPREFIX provided by you, but I guess we should
8 > use the absolute path thinghy that portage internally also uses for
9 > almost everything to avoid this kind of things from happening.
10 >
11 > I don't really like abspath things, because it can possibly screw up
12 > location independence (think of an automounter path being expanded on
13 > e.g. OSX and BSD).
14 >
15 > That said maybe python-fchcksum is easily fixable.
16
17 I was sort of an optimist. This is python cruft, so of course a hell.
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21 Fabian Groffen
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Re: [gentoo-alt] symlinks in EPREFIX path Marshall McMullen <marshall.mcmullen@×××××.com>