On 04/11/2011 10:14 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 09:04 AM, James Cloos wrote:
>> the recently added sci-math/minisat ebuild has this:
>>
>> dodoc "${DISTDIR}"/MiniSat.pdf || die
>>
>> which results in:
>>
>> sym /usr/share/doc/minisat-2.2.0-r2/MiniSat.pdf ->
>> /usr/portage/distfiles/MiniSat.pdf 1302537422
>>
>> Is that a portage issue or an issue with the ebuild?
>>
>> My portage is a few days old; I last merged commit 1d6e6b2fe3b01 from 27
>> March.
>>
>> -JimC
>
> It's a side-effect from this fix which makes dodoc preserve symlinks
> like doins does in EAPI 4:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356461
>
> I guess that we could make doins automatically dereference any symlinks
> that refer to files absolute paths. For symlinks that refer to
> directories by absolute paths, we could continue to preserve the symlink
> as we do now.
Here's the patch:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2e334d77e3d1836ab6ba5dfc1700e90f9599d4d3
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Thanks,
Zac
