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On 30-03-2010 07:19:02 +0200, Markus Duft wrote: |
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> just to chime in on the movability: i successfully moved whole prefix |
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> installations to other directories, and they worked fine (hint: i used |
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> chpathtool to adjust paths) the only limitation is, that the path has to |
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> be the exact same length (or less long, but that one didn't work for me |
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> yet, but that could be fixable). of course this is not really |
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> convenient, but it should be possibly for you to create |
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> "/home/user/prefix-with-long-path1" |
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> and |
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> "/cluster/disk25/user/prefix-short" |
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> those would be exchangeable. Of course chpathtool is possibly still not |
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> perfect, and i observed the one or the other segfault with certain files |
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> (none of those lately though). However you're free to fix it ;) |
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That could match chpathtool's changes that it got recently. Instead of |
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trying to shorten paths, it now pads them with leading slashes, e.g.: |
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original prefix: /path/to/my/long/prefix |
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target prefix: ////////my/short/prefix |
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As a result, the target prefix is always as long as the original prefix, |
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be it somewhat ugly. We found that this solves misc issues that you get |
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when you suddenly make a string smaller ;) |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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