[This thing is more related to tech-userlevel, please forward upcoming 
replies there. Also for the context a most-fully quote of the original 
mail.]

This sounds really strange, as on some of my systems (though no arm32), 
/usr/X11R6 is also a symlink, which works just fine.

Can you send us more details on how you traced this down? ktrace, ...?


 - Hubert

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, S.J. Borrill wrote:
> > > I'm finding that pkg_add is not storing the installation information in
> > > /var/db/pkg/<package name>. I'm using the UVM userland and a UVM current
> > > kernel. This failure mean that pkg_info and pkg_delete don't work, but
> > > also means that any packages which have dependencies don't work properly.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else seen this problem?
> > 
> > I've not had this difficulty. Perhaps you are running the pkg tools as 
> > non-root and have a permissions problem or some such?
> 
> Nope, running as root. I've even tried setting PKG_DBDIR and PKG_PREFIX
> appropriately. However, further investigation shows that it's only failing
> on X packages that it's trying to install in /usr/X11R6 which on my system
> is a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6.3 (as is /usr/X11R6.1). 
> 
> The reason it's not entering anything in /var/db/pkg is that it is not
> actually installing anything, so my original explanation was wrong.
> 
> By removing X11R6 as a symbolic link and creating /usr/X11R6 as an empty
> directory allowed the package to be installed. Therefore the problem is
> actually that pkg_add won't follow symbolic links which I can't see being
> alluded to in the man pages.
> 
> I got around this by using the -p option to pkg_add.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> 

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>