Bug 4625

Summary:	Portage Has Problems With SymLinks
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Owen Stampflee (RETIRED) <owen>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	owen
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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