Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] per ebuild distdir symlinking
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:40:37
Message-Id: 20051226053945.GA8414@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] per ebuild distdir symlinking by Brian Harring
1 On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 07:41:01PM -0800, 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 are
8 > > going to fail to wont they ?
9 > Had originally thought about resetting DISTDIR to the symlink dir; it
10 > would address this concern.
11 Definetly change DISTDIR to point to the symlink dir.
12
13 There were user-authored patches around more than year ago that
14 implemented this (a dir containing symlinks to the real files), as part
15 of somebodies multiple-distdir support.
16
17 --
18 Robin Hugh Johnson
19 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
20 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] per ebuild distdir symlinking Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>