On 04/11/2011 04:32 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> 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
Now it's constrained to $PORTAGE_ACTUAL_DISTDIR/ so that we don't stray
from PMS:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=de9a536f470919651e83ece51923594e8605781b
--
Thanks,
Zac
