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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:47:13 +0100
From:      Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: config file installation/removal
Message-ID:  <20210224114713.591c5552@comet2.terra.ger>
In-Reply-To: <20210218193417.lupbnayir4ji5nk3@aniel.nours.eu>
References:  <20210216122238.4057cde9@comet2.terra.ger> <20210218195136.6d3b6117@comet2.terra.ger> <20210218193417.lupbnayir4ji5nk3@aniel.nours.eu>

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:34:17 +0100
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

Hello,

Stefan just noted to me that relative and absolute links are treated
differently here:

I see the issue described when using an /absolute/ link like 

---
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     10 Feb 24 11:42 etc@ -> /etc/local
---

but everything works as expected when using a /relative/ one like

---
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     15 Feb 24 11:38 etc@ -> ../../etc/local
---


Is this the desired behaviour? Absolute links worked just fine in this
place until recently. Is there a reason for changing this?


cu
  Gerrit



> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 07:51:36PM +0100, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:22:38 +0100
> > Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think I finally found the trigger for this:
> > It happens on systems where I had moved /usr/local/etc to
> > /etc/local and put a link in /usr/local instead:
> > 
> > lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     10 Aug 31  2018 etc@ -> /etc/local
> > 
> > Moving the directory back to /usr/local/etc makes pkg behave as
> > before.
> > 
> > I've been using this for many years on many systems, but something
> > in file handling must have changed in the pkg/ports recently
> > causing this strange behaviour with sample files
> > installation/removal.
> > 
> > Any ideas why this changed? Is this a bug or a feature?
> > 
> >   
> Hello,
> 
> Can you try with pkg 1.16.3 which has just been committed to the tree
> ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt


-- 
Dr. Gerrit Kuehn
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
Albert-Einstein-Institut
Callinstrasse 38
30167 Hannover



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