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"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> posted |
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1162286197.11774.7.camel@×××××××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Tue, |
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31 Oct 2006 01:16:37 -0800: |
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> Thanks for the nice writeup. A quick question: Any idea why all the |
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> examples for changing a profile in the "Gentoo Upgrading Guide" have two |
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> leading periods, as in: |
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> ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop \ |
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> /etc/make.profile |
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> The two periods seem completely redundant to me. |
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It's relative paths vs. absolute paths. These are of course from the |
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make.profile location in etc, but in some cases, the $ROOT (see the entry |
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for that variable in the make.conf manpage) won't be /, so ../usr, |
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relative from the location of the symlink, may not be the same thing as |
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/usr, the absolute path, at all. |
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IOW, for a regular installation, the two paths may be the same, but not |
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all installations are "regular installations"! =8^) |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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