Anyway I meant the opposite, if the issue isn't due to some symlink, copying other system directories (bin and such) should in theory give the same results. I'm not at home atm, so you'll have to wait till this evening.
Bye 2008/5/9 Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Daniele Maccari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2008/5/9 Michael Homer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >> wrote: > >> > On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:32:51 +0200, Daniele Maccari > >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hello everybody, > >> >> > >> >> I was trying to create a recipe for OpenOffice 2.4.0, so I simply > >> >> newversioned the preexistent recipe. However, after having manually > >> >> fixed the recipe a little I found a problem in the installation > phase, > >> >> namely it seems that Compile doesn't correctly recognize some > >> >> directories as such. The problem seems to be related to these lines > >> >> (starting at line 1445 of Compile) > >> >> > >> >> if [ -d "$src" -a -d "$fulldst" ] > >> >> then $sudo_exec cp -R "$src"/* "$fulldst" > >> >> else $sudo_exec cp -R $src "$fulldst" > >> >> fi > >> >> > >> >> In fact, when trying to copy files from /usr/share and > >> >> /opt/OpenOffice2.4/share to Shared the if check seems to not work as > >> >> expected, thus treating share as a simple file to copy under Shared, > >> >> leading to /P/OpenOffice/2.4.0_bin/Shared/share, which prevent the > >> >> pre_link function to correctly perform its task of symlinking desktop > >> >> entries. > >> > > >> > That's because the '-d' test returns false for symlinks and during an > >> > install 'Shared' is a symlink to 'share', hence the second alternative > >> > is being executed. Personally I don't see why PrepareProgram creates > >> > Shared->share instead of share->Shared. I guess it's a legacy. ;) > >> Are you sure? I wondered about that, but: > >> ~]bash > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~][ -d /bin ] && echo /bin is a directory ; ls -l /bin > >> /bin is a directory > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-04-19 10:46 /bin -> > >> System/Links/Executables > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] > >> > >> On the other hand, I don't see what else causes that problem. > > However, I wouldn't want this problem to be openoffice related, so we > > should probably find some manifest recipe to test (if what Jonas pointed > out > > were the problem, I think trying to copy something under bin, lib etc > would > > cause problem too, wouldn't it?) > Shared doesn't appear to be a symlink anyway for me. It might be some > issue specific to Shared, that just hasn't come up in the past because > no other manifest recipe copies a directory directly to Shared. > > Lucas' patch is what would give us the important debugging information > here. Without that it's hard to say what the problem might be. > -Michael > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-devel mailing list > gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel >
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