From: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2015@thebird.nl>
Cc: 21209@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 15:48:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150808154818.GA1808@adjuvant> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150808093119.GA13194@thebird.nl>
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> it is by design that you can't symlink.
If that is true (and it seems like a rather strange design; why would somebody
want that?) I think that the error message should explain that rather than
simply complaining that /gnu/store is "not a directory".
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:51:17AM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote:
> > On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" <[1]kragen@canonical.org>
> > wrote:
> > > I’m working around that by directly mounting the /gnustore partition
> > > under /gnu/store now.
> >
> > You don't need to make a new file system and a loop mount. You could just
> > make a bind mount.
Indeed, but I had already made the new filesystem, for other reasons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-08 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-07 16:03 bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't Kragen Javier Sitaker
2015-08-08 4:51 ` Claes Wallin
2015-08-08 9:31 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-08-08 15:48 ` Kragen Javier Sitaker [this message]
2015-08-18 17:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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