14390 – emerge does not work properly with symlinks

Bug 14390 - emerge does not work properly with symlinks

Summary: emerge does not work properly with symlinks

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2003-01-22 13:49 UTC by Geraldo
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
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Description Geraldo 2003-01-22 13:49:26 UTC

I wanted to emerge mozilla and it take a lot disk space. I had little free space
on my HD, so I plugged another HD and made a symlink from /var/tmp/portage to a
directory on it. But when executed "emerge net-www/mozilla" it raised errors like:

tar: mozilla/build/package/rpm/SOURCES/mozilla-ns-upgrade.desktop: Cannot open:
Permission denied
tar: mozilla/build/package/rpm/SOURCES/mozilla-nspr-packages.patch: Cannot open:
Permission denied

But when removed the symlink and I recreated the /var/tmp/portage directory I
received no more of that error, of course the emerge would not complete because
of lack of disk space.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-01-23 10:28:37 UTC

edit make.conf to change where PORTAGE_TMPDIR is