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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eapi8-dosym.eclass: New eclass.
From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2020-11-23 18:24:12
Message-ID: uzh380w4z () gentoo ! org
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>>>>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Ulrich Müller wrote:
> This implements the dosym command proposed for EAPI 8 (called dosym8
> because we cannot use the same name as the package-manager builtin).
> "dosym -r <target> <link>" will expand the (apparent) path of <target>
> relative to the (apparent) path of the directory containing <link>.
> The main aim of this is to allow for an absolute path to be specified
> as the link target, and the function will count path components and
> convert it into a relative path.
> Since we're inside ED at this point but the image will finally be
> installed in EROOT, we don't try to resolve any pre-existing symlinks
> in <target> or <link>. In other words, path expansion only looks at
> the specified apparent paths, without touching any actual files in ED
> or EROOT.
Pushed to master.
Some simple examples to demonstrate usage:
dosym8 -r /bin/foo /usr/bin/foo
- creates a relative symlink named ../../bin/foo
dosym8 -r /usr/share/doc/foo-1 "${TEXMF}"/doc/latex/foo
- creates a relative symlink named ../../../doc/foo-1
(with TEXMF="/usr/share/texmf-site")
Enjoy!
Ulrich
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