Bug 621800

Summary:	sys-fs/dosfstools-4.1 fails to install symlink for mkdosfs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jack <ostroffjh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jack 2017-06-14 23:55:45 UTC

It seems that dosfstools is supposed to create /usr/sbin/mkdosfs as a symlink to /usr/sbin/mkfs.fat but does not.  True for both 4.0-r1 (stable) and 4.1 (~amd64).  I have not looked into the code to see why it's missing, but I did not see any errors during the emerge.

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-06-15 07:46:10 UTC

Please attach the full build.log of the dosfstools build to this bug and post your "emerge --info".

Comment 2 Jack 2017-06-15 16:21:45 UTC

Apologies - it wasn't clear to me I needed to set the compat USE flag to get the (legacy) symlinks.  (not sure if invalid or worksforme would be best resolution)