Hello, On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:30:23 -0600 Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[] > No, what I meant was that I've tried moving /usr to other > partitions or drives on other distros, usually because I was playing > around with various esoteric file systems, like reiser (when it was > new) or reiser4 or whatever. There are, however, in the /usr/libs and > /usr/libexec and maybe other places, I can't recall -- quite a few > symbolic links already in the file system. When you copy over all > those directories, the links break. Or at least I've never found a > way that doesn't break them. Usually I do a "find . -depth | cpio -pdm > /new-directory-whatever it is" > Anyway, it is a major PITA to go through all those files and dirs > looking for the broken links and repairing them, and you don't have > any X windows until it's done. > If someone knows a way to do it that works better, please let me > know. What you described above may be a well good description why ipkg-link is not supported - it of course does something very similar. And of course it fails in some cases. Fails silently. Nor it's even possible to detect such failures easily - ipkg-link'ed app may seemingly work from first look, but fail in strange ways later, when more rarely used functionality is activated. > > > > -- > Harmon Seaver [] -- Best regards, Paul mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
