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On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:04 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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All you need to do is look at the CONTENTS file which as something like |
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this... |
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dir /usr |
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dir /usr/bin |
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obj /usr/bin/comm 4e28628520359733270907c62c738b3f 1250795126 |
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obj /usr/bin/arch 59d8b1d83cfbc020751c8febc4706901 1250795126 |
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obj /usr/bin/factor a68ac36164e0ac5c1245e358e688942e 1250795126 |
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Look at the first line.... Enough said... |
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Alan. |
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