Larry Hall (Cygwin <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > On 09/03/2014 05:19 PM, Dat Head wrote: > > I have a symlink from /usr/local/bin to /3TB-external/bin/CYGWIN to keep > > architecture independent bin files on an external drive for portability. > > > > every time I run cyg setup.exe it removes the symlink and creates an > > empty /usr/local/bin directory - is it really supposed to do that? > > are there some cygwin pkgs (none that I have installed because it has > > never put anything there) that put files there? (even if there are, > > it shouldn't zap the symlink) > > /usr/local is a common subtree on Linux systems, common enough that > setup makes sure it exists by creating it. Setup, though, doesn't > know about all the variations of symlinks that Cygwin itself does > so its pretty heavy-handed when it comes to symlinks that get in > its way. As a work-around, you could script setup so that it > recreates the symlink you want with each run. You could even make > your own "mirror" which provides a package that contains only a > postinstall script that does this, so that anytime you run setup, > you could install or reinstall this package from your own mirror > to make this more generic and integrated. Another alternative > is to take a look at setup's source and see if you can create a > patch to handle this better. You can probably think up some > other possibilities for a solution that you like even better. > I just use /usr/local as a mount point: $> df /usr/local/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on D:/cygwin-local/usr/local 766838780 405249584 361589196 53% /usr/local setup may create any structure under this mount point, but this has no effect in cygwin due to the mount will hide the previous files/directories at this location this methode prevents me from putting directory tres inside cygwin tree which are not delivered via cygwin setup. I do this also for /home snip from /etc/fstab : D:/cygwin-local/usr/local /usr/local some_fs binary 0 0 D:/cygwin-local/home /home some_fs binary 0 0 regards kf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
