4625 – Portage Has Problems With SymLinks

Bug 4625 - Portage Has Problems With SymLinks

Summary: Portage Has Problems With SymLinks

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-07-06 16:00 UTC by Owen Stampflee (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Owen Stampflee (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-06 16:00:24 UTC

I decided to move my /var/tmp to my /home partition because it has more space. 
I symlinked /var/tmp -> /home/portage/tmp but then Portage then spewed 
PERMISION DENIED errors as it tried to access /home/portage/tmp/*  instead of 
/home/portage/tmp/portage.  
 
I also moved my distfiles to my /home partition and that works fine using a 
symlink and that works fine.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-07-11 03:10:20 UTC

fix will be in Portage 2.0.12