installworld failure due to cross-device links

2013-01-02 Thread Stefan Esser
I'd be interested in the general policy on LINKS vs. SYMLINKS between directories that might end up on different file systems. There seems to be an assumption that system directories in /usr (e.g. /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec) are on the same file system, but I do not think that this assumpti

Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links

2013-01-02 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 01/02/13 07:04, Stefan Esser wrote: > I'd be interested in the general policy on LINKS vs. SYMLINKS > between directories that might end up on different file systems. > > There seems to be an assumption that system directories in /usr > (e.g. /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec) are on the same fi

Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links

2013-01-03 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 02.01.2013 14:26, schrieb Nathan Whitehorn: > On 01/02/13 07:04, Stefan Esser wrote: >> I'd be interested in the general policy on LINKS vs. SYMLINKS >> between directories that might end up on different file systems. >> >> There seems to be an assumption that system directories in /usr >> (e.g.

Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links

2013-01-11 Thread Matt Burke
On 01/02/13 13:26, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Thanks for the patch! I've committed it (slightly modified) as r244958. > I haven't taken any action on the chgrp/chown issue, though. Similarly, 'make distribution' fails when /root is a separate filesystem: cd /usr/src/etc/root; install -o root -g w

Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links

2013-01-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Matt Burke wrote: > On 01/02/13 13:26, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> Thanks for the patch! I've committed it (slightly modified) as r244958. >> I haven't taken any action on the chgrp/chown issue, though. > > Similarly, 'make distribution' fails when /root is a separa