On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:26:26AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > I've had /usr/ports as a symlink for years too. I started noticing > the 0 byte packages fairly recently. figured it was transient. > > if it's now true that using a symlink for PORTSDIR is a problem, > it needs to be documented somethere.
No, it needs to error out in a sensible way, like not creating 0 bytes packages, but displaying an error message. I haven't noticed anything, I surmised it's probably tied to the recent (?) work to uniformize pkgpaths... I'll test it at some point.
