19582 – cvs.eclass and symlinking /usr/portage

Bug 19582 - cvs.eclass and symlinking /usr/portage

Summary: cvs.eclass and symlinking /usr/portage

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Dan Armak (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-04-18 18:43 UTC by L.Schmidt
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
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Description L.Schmidt 2003-04-18 18:43:49 UTC

keeping portageg files in another directory tree, and creating a symlink   ln -s otherdir /usr/portage 
works with non-cvs packages, but upon attempting to emerge a ...-cvs packages access violations 
are reported "can't create dir", regardless of using or not using "FEATURES=sandbox userprivs 
usersandbox cvs" 
a quick work-around would be to  mount --bind otherdir /usr/portage, rather than to create a d of 
symlink.

Comment 1 Dan Armak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-19 16:09:23 UTC

please test with new cvs.eclass committed today.

Comment 2 L.Schmidt 2003-04-20 08:35:11 UTC

fix has been tested, works fine.