Re: [gentoo-catalyst] server maintenance w/ catalyst

[John Davis]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 11:11 -0500, John Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:03 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:29 +1300, Jerome Brown wrote:
> > > William Kilian wrote:
> > >
> > > > Apparently portage_confdir cannot be a symlink. I was using a symlink to
> > > > my /etc/portage directory. When I renamed the symlink and cp -a
> > > > /etc/portage where-symlink-was, then the contents of the files started
> > > > to matter. If there is an argument that portage_confdir shouldn't be a
> > > > symlink, my response is that building multiple targets using identical
> > > > configuration info but different (sub)archs is a strong use-case
> > > > justifying a  symlink.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Wouldn't using a hard link instead work? (ln /etc/portage/
> > > /my/build/root/etc/portage)
> >
> > You should never use a hard link on a directory.  A bind mount would be
> > the preferred method of doing this.
> >
>
> A bind mount might be the best way to go about this anyway. I will
> update the code in CVS.
>
> Cheers,
> //John

Will, I opened a bug for this request:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76146

Add yourself to the CC list, and keep an eye out for a patch. Once the
patch is tested and works, I will add it into CVS.

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis <zhen@g.o>
The Gentoo Foundation
Trustee | Release Engineering Manager | Catalyst code monkey

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