From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>
Cc: 43984@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43984: `--with-graft=...` doesn't work with packages of different length name/version
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:29:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7qobn6y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201017020311.0c68f3d5@runbox.com> (pkill9@runbox.com's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 2020 02:03:11 +0100")
Hi,
pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> skribis:
>> All I’m saying is that nothing can be done when the new name is longer
>> than the old one: we just cannot graft.
>
> If a symlink is used though, it wouldn't matter if the new name is
> longer, the symlink would point to the new package, and the name of the
> symlink would match the length of the old package.
But who would refer to that symlink? The thing on which the graft is
applied can only refer to the store item that has the right length.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-20 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-14 0:55 bug#43984: `--with-graft=...` doesn't work with packages of different length name/version pkill9
2020-10-15 7:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-15 18:50 ` pkill9
2020-10-16 9:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-17 1:03 ` pkill9
2020-10-20 21:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-10-20 22:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2020-10-21 8:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
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