On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Harald Schiöberg wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i'm not sure what it's doing there, but in my current build
> > infrastructure, i have the (broken) symlink:
> >
> >   package/openwrt-packages/packages -> ../feeds/packages
> >
> > it doesn't appear to be doing any harm, but it just as clearly isn't
> > doing any good.  i'm guessing it's a holdover from days gone by or
> > something.
>
> that's strange. for me it looks like this:
>
> package/openwrt-packages -> ../feeds/packages
>
> it is for the feeds system.
> it is used with
>       make package/symlinks
> and
>       feeds.conf

ok, a bit more info.  i have the symlink you have above:

  package/openwrt-packages -> ../feeds/packages

but if you go into feeds/packages, do you see the following?

drwxrwxr-x   9 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 admin
drwxrwxr-x  15 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 ipv6
drwxrwxr-x  24 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 lang
drwxrwxr-x 115 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 libs
drwxrwxr-x   9 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 multimedia
drwxrwxr-x 217 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 net
lrwxrwxrwx   1 rpjday rpjday   17 2008-03-17 12:40 packages -> ../feeds/packages
drwxrwxr-x   4 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 skels
drwxrwxr-x  15 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 sound
drwxrwxr-x  89 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 utils
drwxrwxr-x  15 rpjday rpjday 4096 2008-03-17 12:39 XOrg

  that's where the useless symlink is.  should it be there?

rday
--

========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
    Have classroom, will lecture.

http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
========================================================================
_______________________________________________
openwrt-devel mailing list
openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org
http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel

Reply via email to