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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg-mgr-commands: dohard, both paths are relative to D
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 06:35:05
Message-Id: 22771.4242.390866.160687@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg-mgr-commands: dohard, both paths are relative to D by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Sun, 16 Apr 2017, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > Clarify the description for the dohard helper to indicate that both
4 > the created hardlink (as already noted on top of section) and its target
5 > are interpreted relatively to D. This is how the function is implemented
6 > in Paludis, PkgCore and Portage.
7
8 > There is no need to consider Prefix-relevant behavior since the helper
9 > is banned in all EAPIs supporting Prefix.
10
11 Prefix was introduced in EAPI 3, but dohard was banned in EAPI 4 only.
12 So, we need something along the lines of "Both filenames are relative
13 to \t{ED} in offset-prefix aware EAPIs, or \t{D} in offset-prefix
14 agnostic EAPIs."
15
16 Ulrich

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