[resent with corrected attribution]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> writes:

        It's not a sym-link, it's an evnironment variable:

WRKDIRPREFIX=/data/port-work

        This was done because certain large ports (e.g. libreoffice)
were eating up all the free space on /usr.  So I pointed the work
directory to /data, which has 200+ gbytes free.  This works fine
except is rare cases like this one.
>
>  I've seen some funny things with WRKDIRPREFIX too, but I can't
>  reproduce them. I've mostly seen it on my chroot tinderbox, which
>  always runs with WRKDIRPREFIX set because the ports tree is mounted
>  read-only. The tinderbox is currently broken for other reasons.

I tried unsetting the environment variable, and it died in exactly the same way. Which brings me back to:

        So ... how do I go about further diagnosing the breakage and
getting that to {maintainer, pkg-ng team} who can Do the Right Thing?


        Respectfully,


                        Robert Huff


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