On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I will gladly run test cases for you if

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