Bug 172289

Summary:	gentoo-upgrading.xml: profile symlink: absolute vs. relative paths
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Christian Becke <christianbecke>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	making all paths absolute making all paths relative

Description Christian Becke 2007-03-26 11:51:36 UTC

Hi,

in gentoo-upgrading.xml, code listings 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8 and 3.9 a CWD of /*/ is assumed. I think there should be either absolute paths to the profile, e.g.:

ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/[...]

should be

ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/[...]

or there should be hints to change the directory to (e.g.) /etc, to make sure the relative paths are valid, e.g.:

rm /etc/make.profile
ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/[...]

should be

cd /etc
rm make.profile
ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/[...]

Code listing 3.7 also shows a relative path, but this looks O.K. here because there already is a "cd /etc" before it. But maybe this should be changed as well for consistency?

Attaching two patches, one keeping relative paths and adding "cd /etc" where appropriate, and one changing to absolute paths (leaving code listing 3.7 alone).

Comment 1 Christian Becke 2007-03-26 11:52:54 UTC

Created attachment 114474 [details, diff]
making all paths absolute

Comment 2 Christian Becke 2007-03-26 11:53:34 UTC

Created attachment 114475 [details, diff]
making all paths relative

Comment 3 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-26 12:53:57 UTC

The /etc/make.profile symlink is an absolute path, you do not have to cd anywhere before you create it, and .. is not relative to the CWD when you create the symlink.

You might want to read `man ln` again.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-03-26 23:26:50 UTC

err, no, the links are still relative links ... but the rest of your comments are true

Comment 5 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-27 11:09:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> err, no, the links are still relative links ... but the rest of your comments
> are true

hmm, I didn't say otherwise, did I? Unless you want to call /etc/make.profile a relative path :)

Comment 6 Christian Becke 2007-03-27 11:41:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> The /etc/make.profile symlink is an absolute path, you do not have to cd
> anywhere before you create it, and .. is not relative to the CWD when you
> create the symlink.

You are right, of course... Stupid me. Sorry for the noise.

> You might want to read `man ln` again.

Done. ;)