From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Clarifications on dosym behaviour
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:23:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20258.63902.6759.139613@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120127172942.5b8b42fa@sera-17.lan>
>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
> Just recently Portage started to emit "* QA Notice: dosym target
> omits basename ..." for "dosym /path_to_file/file /some_other_path/"
> The PMS says:
> dosym: Creates a symbolic link named as for its second parameter,
> pointing to the first. If the directory containing the new link does
> not exist, creates it. Failure behaviour is EAPI dependent as per
> section 12.3.3.1.
> The part "Creates a symbolic link named as for its second parameter"
> could qualify it for requiring a basename.
Exactly.
> As the behaviour of an implicit basename of the second parameter was
> used for a long time I wonder if the PMS needs to be updated and
> clarify the dosym behaviour or if this new QA warning can be seen as
> a long overdue implementation of the intended behaviour.
This has been discussed in bug 379899 and the conclusion was that PMS
specifies the intended behaviour.
At the moment a directory argument produces only a QA warning in
Portage. I think the long-term plan is to turn it into an error
though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-27 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-05 18:05 [gentoo-pms] dolib description misses DESTTREE Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-27 16:29 ` [gentoo-pms] Clarifications on dosym behaviour Ralph Sennhauser
2012-01-27 19:23 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2012-01-27 21:59 ` Ralph Sennhauser
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