Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] symlink message prevention
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:48:59
Message-Id: 54378F68.3010708@fairlite.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] symlink message prevention by Zac Medico
1 On 09/10/14 23:38, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 06/30/2014 07:20 AM, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 >> Hi all,
4 >>
5 >> On FreeMiNT, symlinks at the ROOT level is common, and I get this message
6 >> regularly.
7 >>
8 >> * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in order to
9 >> * ensure that files installed via these symlinks remain accessible. This
10 >> * indicates that the mentioned symlink(s) may be obsolete remnants of an
11 >> * old install, and it may be appropriate to replace a given symlink with
12 >> * the directory that it points to.
13 >> *
14 >> * /usr
15 >>
16 >> Can we add something to prevent this on FreeMiNT ?
17 > This setting in make.conf should do the trick:
18 >
19 > UNINSTALL_IGNORE="/usr"
20 >
21 Great. Thanks Zac.
22
23 Hopefully when the prefix tree is back I can pickup a new portage.
24
25 Alan.