Re: pxesconfig makes copies instead of symlinks

There was a thread on this list about this subject, some time ago.
I think that it's a cpio bug in gentoo, but please, check this
list.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 02:24:35 +0200
>From: Thorsten Huefner <[email protected]>  
>Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] pxesconfig makes copies instead of
symlinks  
>To: [email protected]
>
>On Monday 28 March 2005 01:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 23:30 +0200, Thorsten Huefner wrote:
>> > I've a bit of trouble with a fresh pxes-0.9 installation
on gentoo. It is
>> > not the first installation in this kind but the first
doesn't work.
>>
>> If you think it is a Gentoo bug, then file a bug with
Gentoo instead.
>
>No Chris, i dont't think that this is a gentoo bug. It is not
the first 
>installation of pxes on gentoo, I'm using only gentoo since
some years. 
>And I have two other boxes with the same gtk-perl,
glade-perl, perl and pxes  
>versions,  and that works. One box is running the same kernel
(2.6.9-ac12) 
>like the "buggy", i don't know what is the difference. (and i
don't think 
>that the kernel has anything to do with that)
>
>[...]
>> The initrd size should be generated dynamically, but it is
quite
>> possible that the sandbox used by portage is causing the
problem.
>
>No, probably not. The pxes stock is right, symlinks to
busybox. The ramdisc 
>size is calculated for using symlinks, and pxesconfig copies
busyboy (and 
>most probably all others that should be a symlink) instead of
making 
>symlinks, that is the disaster. 
>>
>> Try running:
>>
>> emerge -C pxes && FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" emerge pxes
>
>That should not make a difference, but i've tried it. No
difference.
>>
>> If that works, then I'll have to look into the tarball and
manually
>> create every symlink within the ebuild.
>
>No, your ebuild is right. That works perfect on the other box
(wich one is 
>identical to the buggy, IMHO)
>Fancy ;-)
>
>
>
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