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From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:13:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223131325.GA12712@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512232200.20217.jstubbs@gentoo.org>

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On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:00:20PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Friday 23 December 2005 21:39, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:31:06PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > On Friday 23 December 2005 20:19, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> > > > Well, you should know that those are because of portage bugs or some
> > > > portage peculiarity, read the corresponding bugs for example for cups
> > > > to find out more.
> > >
> > > Can you point me to a bug? There's no mention in the ChangeLog that I can
> > > see nor in the ebuilds themselves...
> >
> > Bug #99375 is mentioned in the changelog for samba.
> 
> Okay. It appears to be something related to symlinks. Can you show me the bug 
> assigned to portage that reports this and/or shows how to reproduce it?

Don't know if it's been reported as a portage bug, but this would show
it:

KEYWORDS="~x86"
src_install() {
	dodir /test
	dosym /usr/bin /test
}

When unmerging, portage won't remove /test/bin because its target still exists.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-23 10:10 [gentoo-dev] pkg_{pre,post}inst misusage Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 11:19 ` Stefan Schweizer
2005-12-23 11:31   ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 12:39     ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-23 12:55       ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 13:00       ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 13:13         ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2005-12-23 17:11           ` Zac Medico
2005-12-23 17:32             ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 17:22           ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 17:52             ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-23 18:09               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 18:46                 ` Harald van Dijk
2005-12-23 18:42             ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-12-23 19:12               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 18:43             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-12-23 18:57               ` Simon Stelling
2005-12-23 19:06               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-12-23 21:19                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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