Bug 14390

Summary:	emerge does not work properly with symlinks
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Geraldo <gamafi>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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