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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] per ebuild distdir symlinking
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:11:15
Message-Id: 200512252253.56019.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] per ebuild distdir symlinking by Brian Harring
1 On Sunday 25 December 2005 22:41, Brian Harring wrote:
2 > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 06:48:02PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 25 December 2005 17:12, Brian Harring wrote:
4 > > > Can be defeated by a unpack ${DISTDIR}/file call, but that's invalid
5 > > > anyways.
6 > >
7 > > and what about things that do `cp ${DISTDIR}/aadsfasdf ${S}/` ? those
8 > > are going to fail to wont they ?
9 >
10 > Had originally thought about resetting DISTDIR to the symlink dir; it
11 > would address this concern.
12
13 yes, that would be best ... otherwise there's no way to cleanly get files out
14 of DISTDIR that do not go through `unpack`
15 -mike
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