Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:44:14AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote: > > I've fixed this now, but I suggest you complain to the person who > > made the previous change (Joerg) without documenting it whatsoever. > > NO_WRKDIR_SYMLINK (the older name) was added in 2005 before I was even a > developer and changed a bit later to CREATE_WRKDIR_SYMLINK based on your > suggestion. So don't blame me for not adding text to the pkgsrc guide. > > The behavior of the symlink as stated in the mail to tech-pkg directly > violates your own reasoning in the original commits: WRKOBJDIR is not > making the pkgsrc tree read-only. This has created confusing over the > year I was participating in pkgsrc (I don't even bother to look for > older examples) and the older behavior can be restored by setting the > variable explicitly. > > Joerg It also breaks pkgsrc tree on SMB/CIFS even when its not read only. Or on every other FS which does not support symlinks. -- Adam
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