Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg-mgr-commands: dohard, both paths are relative to D

[Michał Górny]

On nie, 2017-04-16 at 08:34 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2017, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Clarify the description for the dohard helper to indicate that both
> > the created hardlink (as already noted on top of section) and its target
> > are interpreted relatively to D. This is how the function is implemented
> > in Paludis, PkgCore and Portage.
> > There is no need to consider Prefix-relevant behavior since the helper
> > is banned in all EAPIs supporting Prefix.
>
> Prefix was introduced in EAPI 3, but dohard was banned in EAPI 4 only.
> So, we need something along the lines of "Both filenames are relative
> to \t{ED} in offset-prefix aware EAPIs, or \t{D} in offset-prefix
> agnostic EAPIs."
>
> Ulrich

Indeed. I've stated it incorrectly on the dosym bug then.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny