Bug 399595 – sys-apps/portage: docompress -x leads to inappropriate rename of symlink to symlink.bz2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-01-21 10:35:48 UTC]

I need a symlink like ln -sf en ${ED}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html. I am using docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/en but the symlink gets compressed. Is this a bug?

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2012-01-21 12:13:23 UTC]

Does the following command produce the intended result?

  docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/html

[Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-01-21 12:40:53 UTC]

No, still the symlink gets compressed where as the directory not. Probably we should never compress symlinks.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2012-01-21 21:35:35 UTC]

This should fix it:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=e3ab6f288110602d59c7e8fee8ee8c514c7a4329

As a workaround, you do something like this in pkg_preinst:

  rm -f "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html.* 2>/dev/null
  ln -sf en "${ED}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2012-02-04 23:30:10 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.10.45 and 2.2.0_alpha85.