119703 – tcsh does not create csh symlink.

Bug 119703 - tcsh does not create csh symlink.

Summary: tcsh does not create csh symlink.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Fabian Groffen

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Blocks:	119426
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Reported:	2006-01-20 09:06 UTC by Peter Volkov (RETIRED)
Modified:	2006-02-03 14:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-20 09:06:01 UTC

Latest versions of tcsh does not create symlink /bin/csh. The problem is that dosym does not work in pkg_postinst(). It creates
/var/tmp/portage/tcsh-6.14-r2/image/bin/csh symlink on /etc/tcsh. But as it is called in pkg_postinst() then actual copy of image directory in live system was already done. Please, move    
[ ! -e /bin/csh ] && dosym /bin/tcsh /bin/csh
in src_install() or use ln there.

Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-20 09:09:05 UTC

And I need to mention that this bug is only in currently stable tcsh-6.14-r2 ebuild.

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2006-01-20 09:16:28 UTC

Hmmm... it was in src_install, but I was told to do it in pkg_postinst because of non-availability of csh when checking for it.  src_install can't check outside the image or something.

I'm confused now.  Will look into it.

Comment 3 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2006-01-29 03:23:35 UTC

I added tcsh-6.14-r3 which solves this bug by adding the symlink.  Also csh is now blocked from tcsh.  The fun is that csh stable already blocked tcsh, so there should be noone with both installed...

Comment 4 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-03 14:42:00 UTC

Marking as fixed... Reopen if you object!