Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links

On 01/02/13 07:04, Stefan Esser wrote:
> I'd be interested in the general policy on LINKS vs. SYMLINKS
> between directories that might end up on different file systems.
>
> There seems to be an assumption that system directories in /usr
> (e.g. /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec) are on the same file
> system, but I do not think that this assumption is documented.
>
> I'm using a ZFS only installation of -CURRENT and have separate file
> systems for several of the directories in / and /usr, that usually
> share a file system (e.g. /bin, /sbin, but also /usr/bin/, /usr/sbin
> and /usr/libexec are independent file systems).
>
> An older case is the link from /usr/bin/chgrp to /usr/sbin/chown
> (see usr.sbin/chown/Makefile), which is easily fixed by using a
> SMYLINK instead of a LINK.
>
> And now there is usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit/Makefile, which as of
> r244859 creates a link from /usr/libexec/bsdinstall to /usr/sbin/sade.
>
> This breaks with /usr/bin and /usr/sbin on different file systems,
> while it should not according to the commit message:
>

Thanks for the patch! I've committed it (slightly modified) as r244958.
I haven't taken any action on the chgrp/chown issue, though.
-Nathan