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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: Case-sensitive filesystem
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:25:05
Message-Id: 20080210082459.GR1750@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Re: Case-sensitive filesystem by Dirk Tilger
1 On 10-02-2008 07:16:44 +0000, Dirk Tilger wrote:
2 > Hi Fabian and everyone else,
3 >
4 > I just ran into some problems and found this thread while researching. I
5 > ported =dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.6.2 to prefix on my system and noticed that
6 > they try to create an executable shell script "pear" in a directory that
7 > has already the "PEAR" subdirectory.
8
9 Yep, this happens for more packages, unfortunately.
10
11 > For myself I could get around with just renaming that "pear" script to
12 > its original name "pear.sh", but since this script might be called from
13 > other ebuilds I'm wondering what the right approach would be to get that
14 > change "upstream".
15
16 Only if upstream cares, they could probably rename the PEAR directory
17 into something that isn't case-insensitively the same.
18
19 > What's Gentoo's policy for life on a case-insensitive filesystem?
20
21 None, as it doesn't exist. And frankly, I really hate Apple doing it
22 even still in Leopard.
23
24 --
25 Fabian Groffen
26 Gentoo on a different level
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