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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gnome/gtk app ebuilds
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:06:59
Message-Id: 01080310081305.00608@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gnome/gtk app ebuilds by Daniel Robbins
1 On Friday 03 August 2001 09:34, you wrote:
2 > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:42:14AM -0600, Craig Joly wrote:
3 > > Can emerge handle symlinks ok, or should they be created in the
4 > > src_install section of the ebuild file?
5 >
6 > Symlinks are fine; you can create them like this:
7 >
8 > ln -s /usr/bin/realfile ${D}/path/to/symlink
9 >
10 > Or, if you prefer:
11 >
12 > dosym /usr/bin/realfile /path/to/symlink
13 >
14 > They should be created in src_install().
15 >
16 > > I'll be busy over the next few days, but I'll try to get these updated
17 > > by Monday. To hold you over until then, here are some very minor
18 > > fixes to pcmcia-cs and ithought. Just fixes with dodoc.
19 >
20 > OK; thanks for your good work. Try to catch me on irc when you have
21 > some time and I'll set up a developer account for you.
22 >
23 OK, I've sent that reply to the first letter in this thread without having
24 got the entire thread from the server. Since these ebuilds need updating,
25 I'll put them in a dir of their own under incoming with a warning to leave
26 them alone :-), to keep people from duplicating work.
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31 Dan Armak
32 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
33 Matan, Israel