From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 11 14:19:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24366E98 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:19:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mattblists@icritical.com) Received: from mail1.icritical.com (mail1.icritical.com [93.95.13.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EAFEDA2 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11106 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2013 14:19:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by mail1.icritical.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2013 14:19:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 11097 invoked by uid 599); 11 Jan 2013 14:19:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO PDC002.icritical.int) (212.57.254.146) by mail1.icritical.com (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:19:16 +0000 Message-ID: <50F01F52.10006@icritical.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:18:58 +0000 From: Matt Burke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120906 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Subject: Re: installworld failure due to cross-device links References: <50E42264.4010609@freebsd.org> <50E4357B.7020400@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <50E4357B.7020400@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TLS-Incoming: YES X-Virus-Scanned: by iCritical at mail1.icritical.com X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:19:05 -0000 On 01/02/13 13:26, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Thanks for the patch! I've committed it (slightly modified) as r244958. > I haven't taken any action on the chgrp/chown issue, though. Similarly, 'make distribution' fails when /root is a separate filesystem: cd /usr/src/etc/root; install -o root -g wheel -m 644 dot.profile /tmproot/root/.profile; rm -f /tmproot/.profile; ln /tmproot/root/.profile /tmproot/.profile ln: /tmproot/.profile: Cross-device link *** [distribution] Error code 1 Is there any real advantage of hard links over symlinks nowadays? -- Sorry for the following... The information contained in this message is confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you have received this message in error, or there are any problems with its content, please contact the sender. iCritical is a trading name of Critical Software Ltd. Registered in England: 04909220. Registered Office: IC2, Keele Science Park, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5NH. This message has been scanned for security threats by iCritical. www.icritical.com