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
